tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21945772871656273332024-03-13T22:28:24.757-07:00LitChatLitChat is the literary salon for those interested in getting together once a month. There is a different host and theme each month. LitChat is supported by the Hamilton Public Library and Hamilton Arts Council.
Venue for LitChat is Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library.LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-60620511481419753572020-03-12T10:52:00.000-07:002020-03-19T13:14:33.692-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-62045342358828175452020-02-16T16:47:00.002-08:002020-02-16T16:47:58.890-08:00PUTTING YOURSELF ON PAPER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;">TUES MAR 10</span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Our guest <b>Lise Lévesque </b>will speak of
the joys and pitfalls of crafting a memoir. Her intention is to compare her own
process to that of writing a novel.</span><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Montreal-born
</span><b style="font-size: 16pt;">Lise Lévesque</b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> worked in the fields of travel, communication, education
and mental health. A graduate of the McMaster`s Writing Program, she thrives on
travelling, research, reading and writing. Her stories have been published in
anthologies such as </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Main Street, In the Wings, Brought to Light</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Engraved</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.
At present she is putting the final touches on her memoir entitled </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">On the
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-76479317789537480202020-01-14T20:59:00.002-08:002020-01-14T20:59:58.108-08:00WRITING COLLABORATIONS with GARY BARWIN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>7.30p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Gary Barwin</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is a writer, composer, and
multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-four books of poetry, fiction
and books for children. His work includes many collaborations works with
writers as well as with other artforms. His latest books include <i>A
Cemetery for Holes, </i>a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon
Hill, Fall 2019) and <i>For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe:
New and Selected Poems,</i> ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, Fall
2019.) His national bestselling novel <i>Yiddish for Pirates </i>(Random
House Canada) won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian
Jewish Literary Award (Fiction) and the Hamilton Book Award (Fiction). It was
also a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the
Scotiabank Giller Prize.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">A new
novel, <i>Don’t Fence Me In </i>will appear from Random House in
2021. Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities and public
libraries and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto
(Scarborough Campus) as well as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He
lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://garybarwin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #094fd1; font-size: 14.0pt;">garybarwin.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-62434101810667236252019-12-15T11:31:00.000-08:002019-12-15T11:31:29.397-08:00THE RULES OF POETRY (there are no rules) with ROSS BELOT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p>TUES JAN 14</o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Often people, especially in workshops, talk about rules about
writing poetry as if there is some official code written down
somewhere. We will take a stab at developing a list of the rules. Ross
will bring examples anticipating the rules people have and where the rules are
successfully ignored. We will talk about how the poem itself has its own rules
it wants to follow rather than ones the poetry police want to enforce.</span><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Ross Belot</b> has lived in Hamilton most of his life. He still
does some of the time. He used to work for the oil industry while writing
poetry. Now he collects a pension from them while writing poetry. He was a
finalist for the 2016 CBC poetry prize and was also long listed for that prize
in 2018. His work was selected for Best in Canadian Poetry 2013. He
started writing seriously back in 2000 with the McMaster Creative Writing Program. He
received an MFA in Creative Writing in 2017 from St Mary’s College of
California. His second collection, <i>Moving to Climate Change Hours</i>, is
forthcoming in the spring from Wolsak and Wynn. His first collection, <i>Swimming
in the Dark</i>, was published by Black Moss Press in 2008.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: #580A; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-49085939118147520032019-11-14T07:41:00.000-08:002019-11-14T07:41:21.786-08:00SHARING OUR STORIES IN DECEMBER <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">TUES DEC 10</span><br />
7.30p.m.-9.00p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: #580A; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As it is our annual tradition at LitChat,
everyone is invited to bring a story to read. It may be one that you have
written yourself or one of your favourite stories that you would like to share
with us, to warm up a wintry evening among friends. The story you choose to read
does not have to be about Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-35681746043292423272019-11-02T16:06:00.001-07:002019-11-02T16:09:07.454-07:00TAKING ON AN ICON: TURNING AN ARTIST INTO A CHARACTER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7.30p.m.-9.00p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: #580A; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">SALLY COOPER writes essays, fiction and screenplays. Her writing has appeared
in such publications as <i>The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature</i>, <i>The
Million, </i>and <i>TNQ: The New Quarterly</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her recently published fourth
novel, <i>With My Back to the World</i> (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019)
features iconic abstract painter, Agnes Martin, as a character. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-21041526377552413672019-09-11T13:28:00.000-07:002019-09-11T13:30:05.451-07:00LIVING METAPHORICALLY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">TUES OCT 8</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">7.30p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">JEFFERY DONALDSON has recently celebrated his thirtieth year in the English department at McMaster. A poet and critic, he has consolidated this two-spirited career around a particular attention to metaphor and metaphoric thinking in the humanities and the sciences. Author of six volumes of poetry, he published his book length study on metaphor (</span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Missing Link: the Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) with McGill-Queen’s in 2015. A recent selection of notebook entries entitled </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Viaticum</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> was published this spring with Porcupine’s Quill. </span></div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-18026484039896978692019-08-12T17:53:00.001-07:002019-08-12T17:53:21.317-07:00BLOOMIN' LATE: Learning how to write and publish poetry over the age of 70.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;">TUES SEPT 10, 7.30p.m.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;">NewComer Learning Centre, 4th floor, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After a hitch in
the U.S. Army, </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Roy J. Adams</b></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, who was born in Philadelphia, earned a Ph.D.
degree and secured an appointment in Industrial Relations at McMaster
University in 1973. He kept that post for 24 years before taking early
retirement. Free from university commitments, he took up again the creative
writing challenge he’d failed at as a young man. In his early 70s, although he
had never written nor even read much poetry, he gave it a go. Many workshops,
“how to” books, university courses, advice from successful poets and a stream
of rejections later, he began to have some success. Since 2014 he’s published
poems in literary publications in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and Singapore. In
2019, when he was 78, Silver Bow Press in B.C. published his first full book of
poetry entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Critical Mass</i>, a
“wonderful book” according to Gena Zuroski of McMaster, that “<span style="color: black;">feels like poetry, a collection of short stories, and a
memoir all at once” and Jeff Mahoney of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Hamilton Spectator</i> says is “a terrific effort,” that “</span><span style="color: #333333;">leaves you with a jumpy bebop beating infectiously in
your ears, mind and feelings…”</span><span style="color: black;"> Roy</span>
recently became a full member in the League of Canadian Poets. For more on
Roy’s journey see <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-65610120089608667042019-05-16T18:17:00.003-07:002019-05-16T18:17:35.438-07:00HOW TO WRITE A CHILDREN'S BOOK AND GET PUBLISHED WHILE PROCRASTINATING JENNIFER MOOK-SANG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">TUES JUNE 11</span><br />
7.30p.m. LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br />
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<b>Jennifer Mook-Sang</b> grew up in Guyana, South America and now lives Burlington Ontario. While reading bedtime stories to her two sons, she fell in love with picture books and decided to write one of her own. In the midst of her writing journey, Jennifer is amazed and delighted to find herself a published author. Her humorous middle-grade novel <i>Speechless</i> (2015, Scholastic) was nominated for a slew of awards. It was named the Surrey Schools Book of the Year and commended as a ‘best book of the year’ by the CBC. Jennifer’s picture book <i>Captain Monty Takes the Plunge </i>was published by Kids Can Press in October 2017. Captain Monty is a stinky pirate who’s never had a bath, because he’s afraid of the water, because he can’t swim. Of course he falls in love with a mermaid. What could be more perfect? Jennifer loves to read and cook (and eat) and talk to her many young readers about writing. The actual writing part? Not so much. She will share her story of becoming a real live writer and her road to publication. Questions welcome!</div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-24051033381352168162019-04-10T07:46:00.003-07:002019-04-10T07:53:39.616-07:00THE IMPORTANCE OF POPULAR FICTION with DAVID LEE <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222;">7.30p.m. LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: #580A; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Although literary fiction gets the awards, it is
worth considering that popular fiction - otherwise called "genre" or
even "formula" fiction - is equally evocative of a time and place,
and can effectively work its way through an era's most pressing issues.
Hamilton author David Lee's 2015 Young Adult novel <i>The Midnight
Games </i>won the Hamilton Arts Council's Kerry Schooley Award for the
book that "best conveys the spirit of Hamilton." He is also the
author of the novel <i>Commander Zero</i>, and the non-fiction books <i>The
Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field, Stopping
Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz, </i>and <i>Chainsaws:
A History. </i>He is presently completing a sequel to <i>The Midnight
Games.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-46077239464559096702019-03-14T16:12:00.002-07:002019-04-03T11:36:16.729-07:00WHY THOMAS MERTON MATTERS NOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">TUES APR 9</span>, 7.30p.m.<br />
LINC classroom,4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poet and essayist, J.S. Porter was
born in Belfast in the north of Ireland and educated at McMaster University (MA
in English literature). He is the Culture Critic for The Nancy Duffy Show, a
columnist for <em>Dialogue Magazine</em> and a frequent contributor
to <em>Hamilton Arts and Letters</em>. His most recent books are <i>The
Glass Art of Sarah Hall</i> and <i>Lightness and Soul: Musings on
Eight Jewish Writers.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> He co-</span>authored
a book with SusanMcCaslin, <i>Thomas Merton Superabundantly Alive</i>. He
is currently writing a book of poetry and notes entitled <i>Furrawn: Talk
that Leads to Intimacy.</i> John reads and writes in Hamilton with
his wife Cheryl. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.spiritbookword.net/" target="_blank">spiritbookword - The Writings of J.S.
Porter</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan McCaslin is an
established Canadian poet and Faculty Emeritus of English and Creative Writing
and has published fifteen volumes of poetry, including <i>Into the Open: Poems
New and Selected </i>(Inanna, Sept. 2017). Susan has recently
collaborated with J.S. Porter on a work of creative non-fiction, <i>Thomas
Merton Superabundantly Alive</i> (Wood Lake, Oct. 2018)<i>,</i> on the
twentieth-century contemplative and activist Thomas Merton. Her <i>Demeter Goes
Skydiving </i>(University of Alberta Press, 2011) was short-listed for the
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Poetry Book Prize) and first-place winner of
the Alberta Book Publishing Award. Susan resides in Fort Langley, BC, where she
initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project as part of a successful campaign to
protect an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River. </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.susanmccaslin.ca/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">www.susanmccaslin.ca</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-1572093328778032512019-02-15T20:36:00.002-08:002019-02-15T20:37:06.731-08:00 WORKING ACROSS GENRE with KATE CAYLEY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">TUES MARCH 12</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Kate Cayley’</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt;">s
first collection of short fiction, <i>How
You Were Born, </i>won the Trillium Book Award and was a finalist for the
Governor General’s Award. She has published two collections of poetry, <i>When This World Comes to an End, </i>and <i>Other Houses</i>. She has also written a
young adult novel, <i>The Hangman in the
Mirror, </i>which won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She was
a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto from 2009-2017, and
wrote two plays for Tarragon, <i>After
Akhmatova </i>and <i>The Bakelite
Masterpiece, </i>which had its American premiere in 2016 and a third production
at the New Repertory Theatre in Boston this past spring. She is a frequent
writing collaborator with immersive theatre company Zuppa Theatre, most
recently on <i>The Archive of Missing Things
</i>and <i>This Is Nowhere. </i>She is the
writer in residence at McMaster University for the 2018-19 academic year, and
is working on a novel and a second collection of short stories. She lives in
Toronto with her wife and their three children.</span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-83354856551362331312019-01-13T11:52:00.000-08:002019-02-12T07:28:47.336-08:00 HOW TO WRITE A CHILDREN’S STORY AND GET PUBLISHED WHILE PROCRASTINATING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>TUES FEB 12, 7.30p.m. LITCHAT is CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER, LIBRARY IS CLOSED.</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">JENNIFER MOOK-SANG grew up in Guyana, South America and now lives
Burlington Ontario. While reading bedtime stories to her two sons, she fell in
love with picture books and decided to write one of her own. In the midst of
her writing journey, Jennifer is amazed and delighted to find herself a published
author. Her humorous middle-grade novel <i>Speechless</i> (2015,
Scholastic) was nominated for a slew of awards. It was named the Surrey <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schools Book of the Year and commended as a
‘best book of the year’ by the CBC. Jennifer’s picture book <i>Captain
Monty Takes the Plunge </i>was published by Kids Can Press in October
2017. Captain Monty is a stinky pirate who’s never had a bath, because he’s
afraid of the water, because he can’t swim. Of course he falls in love with a
mermaid. What could be more perfect? Jennifer loves to read and cook (and eat)
and talk to her many young readers about writing. The actual writing part? Not
so much. She will share her story of becoming a real live writer and her road
to publication. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Questions welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-77564396383462029502018-12-13T18:15:00.000-08:002018-12-13T18:15:05.270-08:00COUNTRY NOIR: BRAD SMITH in CONVERSATION with GRAHAM ROCKINGHAM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">BRAD SMITH was born
and raised in the hamlet of Canfield, in southern Ontario, a couple of hours
from Toronto. After high school, he worked for the signal department of the
Canadian National Railway for three years, and then got a chance to work on a
rail project in South Africa. Upon returning from Africa, Smith worked all over
the place - Alberta, British Columbia, Texas - at a variety of jobs. Farmer,
signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher , maintenance
mechanic, roofer, and so on. He became a carpenter and built custom homes in
Canada. He still works as a carpenter when not writing. He now lives in an
eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-32099638276707282092018-11-18T10:24:00.002-08:002018-11-18T10:24:29.538-08:00OUR STORIES IN DECEMBER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">TUES DEC 11</span><br />
7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.<br />
LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library.<br />
Everyone is invited to bring and share a story for this December evening.</div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-48509891097088348882018-10-09T10:52:00.000-07:002018-10-09T10:52:02.784-07:00DIVIDED with LINDA FRANK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Linda Frank's fourth book of poetry, published by Wolsak
& Wynn this spring, is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divided</i>.
Her work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She
has been short listed for the Pat Lowther Award and won the Bliss Carman Award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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research when writing a poem? Can facts be lyrical? Are facts truth in poetry?
Can poetry tell the truth without fact?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-31300381652409469052018-09-15T10:57:00.002-07:002018-09-15T10:57:41.204-07:00PAUL LISSON on Anniversaries: HAL magazine, 10th Year / Short Works Prize, 5th Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Paul Lisson</b> was born in the north end of Hamilton into a family of union card carrying steel workers who played in bagpipe bands.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Poet and archivist. Winner: Hamilton Art Award for Visual Art and Writing (1997); and for Arts Administration (2017). Winner: McMaster University Rand Memorial Prize for Accomplishment in Print. Paul was, for many years, the Librarian in the Programming Department at the Hamilton Public Library and organized hundreds of concerts, exhibitions, and talks. Co-founder with Fiona Kinsella and Peter Stevens (1963-2015) of <i>Hamilton Arts & Letters</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> magazine. Co-founder of the Short Works Prize for Hamilton writers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Paul’s first full-length book of poems, <i>The Perfect Archive</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2019.</span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-46854161084265774072018-08-06T15:02:00.001-07:002018-08-08T10:48:34.805-07:00HOMEWORK: LOCALISM IN AND AGAINST THE SPACE OF FLOWS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">7.30-9.00p.m.</span></span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Innis spent a lot of time wondering “Why do we attend to what we attend to?” Our attention is increasingly divided between the space of places and what Manuel Castells calls the space of flows, the apparently fluid and encyclopedic space beyond our screens. We will consider a few works of fiction in which this city is depicted, and also some of the blogs which have arisen in the space of flows to direct attention to the city’s places. Is the space of places freer than the space of flows? Citizens living under censorious regimes sometimes resort to “inner emigration.” Does it make any sense to think about defecting from the global aggregation of attention in the space of flows to dwell only in the space of places?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Shawn Selway</b> is a Stelco-trained millwright and the author of “Nobody Here Will Harm You”, a book about the evacuation of Inuit from the Eastern Arctic to the Hamilton Mountain Sanatorium during the sixties. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals and on the local civic affairs blog, ”Raise the Hammer”. He is currently an active member of the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network. Don't agonize, organize.</span></div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-46554400826410885402018-04-29T12:42:00.001-07:002018-04-29T12:44:06.350-07:00"I WRITE THE SONGS "<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">TUES JUNE 12</span><br />
7.30p.m. - 9p.m.<br />
LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br />
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LAURA KEATING is a Hamilton-born singer-songwriter who engages audiences with her personal stories which are the framework of vibrant melodies. When Keating plugs in her acoustic guitar, away she goes, on a journey to the heart of life; soothing the soul and waking up the mind.<br />
<i>Let Me Tell You</i> is her debut album.<br />
laurakeatingmusic.com</div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-66396109022070103492018-04-29T12:28:00.000-07:002018-05-05T12:26:50.392-07:00AUTUMN GETTY on A Mystery Topic on Poetry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">TUES MAY 8</span><br />
7.30p.m. -9.00p.m.<br />
LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br />
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AUTUMN GETTY<span style="color: #113730; font-family: spinnaker, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> is the trans female author of two books of poetry published by Nightwood Editions. <i>Reconciliation</i> won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Hamilton and Area Arts Council Award for poetry and was nominated for the Trillium Award for Poetry. The Winnipeg Free Press named her second book, <i>Repose</i>, one of the top ten books of poetry published in Canada in 2008. She has also received the Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and was nominated for the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts as an emerging writer.</span></div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-58820639703034969802018-03-16T13:08:00.000-07:002018-03-16T13:08:00.997-07:00CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ – ROSS BELOT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a latish life MFA in California, what I did, what I learned about writing and
life</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ross Belot</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> is a photographer, documentary film maker,
columnist on energy and climate change for iPolitics.ca and a poet. His
first collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swimming in the Dark, </i>was
published in 2008 by Black Moss Press. He was a finalist for the 2016 CBC
Poetry Prize. He has had multiple residencies at the Banff Centre for writing
and photography, published poetry in literary journals and had a poem selected
for Best in Canadian Poetry in English 2013. After over three decades in
the oil industry he took early retirement in 2014 and concentrated on his
creative endeavours. This somehow led to an MFA at St Mary’s College of California
working with top American poets, Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder. He took
six months after graduating from that program to fully experience the Bay area
and the West Coast. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-55603581562369936322018-02-19T07:13:00.004-08:002018-03-13T15:23:04.014-07:00HORROR IN HAMILTON<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">TUES MAR 13</span></b><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> CANCELLED TONIGHT because of illness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What is horror literature and why does Hamilton need it?
<b>David Neil Lee</b>, author of the Hamilton horror novel <i>The Midnight Games </i>(Wolsak
and Wynn 2015), maintains that at its best, horror can be a literature that
explores and extends our relationships with our bodies, with our pasts, and
with the natural world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last year, David Lee completed a PhD in English at the
University of Guelph. As a double bassist, he has performed in Hamilton with
Gary Barwin, Dave Gould, and in a trio with Chris Palmer and Connor Bennett.
His YA novel <i>The Midnight Games </i>won the Hamilton Arts
Council’s 2016 Kerry Schooley Award for regional literature. His other books
include the novel <i>Commander Zero</i>, the award-winning <i>Chainsaws:
A History, </i>and the jazz studies <i>The Battle of the Five Spot:
Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field </i>and <i>Stopping Time:
Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz</i>. He lives and works in Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-43931406792103584932018-01-15T11:36:00.003-08:002018-01-15T11:40:33.653-08:00THE SHORT STORY: SOME REMARKS ON TECHNIQUE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">SHOWEY YAZDANIAN </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">has
contributed as a journalist to Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star,
The Guelph Mercury, The Lawyer’s Weekly, and others. She is the author of the
novella</span><i style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> Loopholes</i><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">, which won the
2015 Ken Klonsky Award; her work has also appeared in the story
collection </span><i style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Footprints for Mothers
and Daughters</i><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">. Showey grew up in Toronto and holds a Ph.D. in the
physical sciences. Read more at www.showey.net</span></div>
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LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-56846714178988990452017-12-04T17:38:00.000-08:002017-12-04T17:38:02.478-08:00Getting Published the Hard Way: A Tongue-in-Cheek Journey from Kinkos Copies to Guernica Editions <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
TUES JAN 9<br />
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LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library<br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rocco de Giacomo</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in literary journals in Canada, Australia, England, Hong Kong and the US. His work has recently been accepted for publication in The Windsor Review and Canlit, and has most recently been published in Prairie Fire. Rocco’s poetry has also been featured on the CBC. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including, in 2008, <i>Catching Dawn’s Breath</i>. In 2009, his first full-length poetry collection, <i>Ten Thousand Miles Between Us</i>, was launched through Quattro Books. In 2010, <i>Ten Thousand Miles Between Us </i>was longlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award. In 2011, it was selected for Poetry NOW’s 3rd Annual Battle of the Bards. His latest collection, <i>Every Night of Our Lives</i>, was published with Guernica Editions in the fall of 2016. His third poetry collection, entitled Brace Yourselves, is coming out in the fall of 2017, through Quattro Books. From 2008 to 2014, Rocco volunteered on the committee for the Art Bar Poetry Series, Canada’s longest running weekly series. Rocco lives in Toronto with his wife, Lisa Keophila, a fabric artist, and his daughters, Ava and Matilda</span></div>
LitChathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16782423588864018687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194577287165627333.post-4640480412911303262017-11-20T08:49:00.001-08:002017-11-20T08:49:15.985-08:00OUR STORIES IN DECEMBER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">TUESDAY DEC 12</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Everyone is welcome
to join us with a story on a wintry evening as it is our custom to gather
together telling stories in the month of December. It will be a festive time
for socialising and celebrating at the end of the year. At LitChat, this is how
we do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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