Gregory Betts

Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

The Candahar Bar
1398 Cartwright Street, 3rd Floor, Granville Island (the Playwrights Theatre Centre)

Co-Produced with The Candahar Bar.

note the early start-time!

131.
a new act
begins
in the rushed click
after math

132.
Fatal lies, tight and bright
this becoming of things
that refuse us

and of my mind
the metal
veers forward

133.
o from what powre
this art to kill

this is a
a war to kill
hating, hate
rinsed of life

134.
art transcends
of mind taught
metal minds

135.
Still Shatner
smiles
into the future

136.
What powre is
science art giving?

No beast.
No centre.
No blood.

[from The Others Raisd in Me, 150 re-writes of Shakespeare's sonnet #150]

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist and teacher originally from Vancouver and Toronto. He is the author of If Language (2005), Haikube (2006), and The Others Raisd in Me (2009) as well as numerous chapbooks and various bits of ephemera. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada, the United States, and four other countries. He has edited editions of poetry by W.W. E. Ross, Raymond Knister and Lawren Harris and, most recently, a critical edition of selected stories, essays and manifestos by Bertram Brooker, Canada's first avant-gardist. He is the co-editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine, and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series. He lives in St. Catharines where he teaches Canadian and Avant-Garde literature at Brock University. For more, see http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/betts/

Lydia Kwa
Sina Queyras
Emily Fedoruk

Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 7 pm

Rhizome Café
317 East Broadway

Co-produced with the ON EDGE series

note early start time!

Michael Barnholden

Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

W2 Perel Gallery
112 West Hastings

tentative date!