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Planet Earth Poetry: Arleen Pare, Laura Apol
A master of the mixed-genre book, Arleen Paré is both a novelist and a poet. He...
7:30pm Doors at: 7:00pm
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A master of the mixed-genre book, Arleen Paré is both a novelist and a poet. Her first book, Paper Trail, won the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Leaving Now, her second, was listed as an All Lit Up top ten book. Her third, a collection of poetry entitled Lake of Two Mountains, tells the story of a lake and the many relationships built up around it. The book won both a Governor General’s Literary Award and a CBC Bookie Prize. He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car, 2015, was a finalist for the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Pare's most recent poetry collection, The Girls with Stone Faces, describes the lives and art of two well-known twentieth-century sculptors, Florence Wyle and Frances Loring. Paré, who lives and writes in Victoria, holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Victoria.
Laura Apol teaches creative writing and literature at Michigan State University. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, and she is the author of several award-winning collections: Falling into Grace; Crossing the Ladder of Sun; Requiem, Rwanda (drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and translated into Kinyarwanda under the title Even the Rain Remembers); and Celestial Bodies (published here in BC by Leaf Press). Her newest collections, With a Gift for Burning, and Nothing but the Blood, will be coming out in 2018. She is currently working on a book with the working title Fierce, based on the loss of her daughter, Hanna, who died in April 2017. Laura considers Michigan to be part of Southern Canada, which makes her Canadian in spirit if not in citizenship.
The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mic, followed by a featured reader(s). Planet Earth Poetry is located at Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave (across from Bolen Books). Between 7 and 7:15, put your name in the hat to read at open mic.
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Fri. February 9th 2018 + Add to Calendar
Hillside Coffee and Tea
