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Poetry, Poets and the Arab Spring

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Oct 15 2011 - 2:00pm
Oct 15 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

Beit Zatoun
612 Markham St. (Bathurst Subway)
Canada
Phone: 647-726-9500
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6868" W

Poetry, Poets and the Arab Spring
Finding poetry in the heart of Resistance

Beit Zatoun is proud to be a sponsor and participate in the Third International Festival of Poetry of Resistance. Beit Zatoun has programmed a segment on poetry and the Arab Spring of 2011.

Poetry, Poets, and the Arab Spring - discussion, poetry reading, video and music.

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Maple Leaf Rag delivers rhymes and resistance

Maple Leaf Rag

Maple Leaf Rag

by Kaie Kellough
(Arbeiter Ring Publishing,
2010;
$14.95)

Despite the current unsustainability of our individual carbon footprints, the standard method of personal renewal in affluent postmodern society continues to be tourism. Eyes glazed over by routine and sameness are opened to the pseudo-newness of "elsewhere." It's a strategy often used in the creative writing game. From that temporary, distant perspective, one can cast a long look back at one's homeland, and gain fresh insights.

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Episode 29 - George Fetherling reveals Walt Whitman's Secret

May 27, 2010
| An interview with George Fetherling about his latest novel Walt Whitman's Secret.

24:37 minutes (22.55 MB)
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Walt Whitman's Canadian cult

Walt Whitman's Secret

Walt Whitman's Secret

by George Fetherling
(Random House,
2010;
$32.00)

In this 25-minute interview Alex Samur chats with George Fetherling about his latest novel Walt Whitman's Secret and the impact the American poet had on Canadians.

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George Fetherling, the "iconic Canadian poet, writer and editor" (Globe and Mail), has been called "a mercurial, liberal intelligence…the kind of which English Canada has too short a supply" (Montreal Gazette). His 50 books include fiction, memoir, travel narrative and cultural commentary. He lives in Vancouver and Toronto. His column on books appears on rabble.ca.

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Toronto Women's Bookstore Fundraiser

Apr 19 2010 - 7:00pm
Apr 19 2010 - 10:00pm

Location

The Central
603 Markham St.
Toronto M6G 2L7
Canada
Phone: 416-913-4586
43° 39' 51.6276" N, 79° 24' 43.8768" W

Come out and help save the Toronto Women's Bookstore!

A night of readings by local fiction writers and poets featuring:

Mary Lou Dickinson, Sonia di Placido, Sue Reynolds, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Truth Is, Lisa Young, Monica Rosas, Myna Wallin, Nikki Ward and Phoebe Tsang.

Hosted by Blonde Ambition/Disinhibition (Heather J  Wood and Cathy Petch).

Books for sale! Door prizes & other suprises!

PWYC at the door.

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