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[anna]

Date: April 3 (1-5pm) Sunday
Readers’ Den at central Library
Mississauga, Free Admission

Agenda (MCs: Brent Wood/ Chelsea Tao)
1:00-1:30 Music warm up by Flamenco Guitar: Mark Harry
& Songs from Arlene Paculan
(during this time, please register for Open Mic with Chelsea Tao)
1:30-2:30 Featured Poets (each 10 minutes)
Anna Yin, Ian Williams, Claudia RadMore,
Alexandra Oliver and Max Layton

2:30 Open Mic for all ages
(Max Layton will sing his own songs with guitar to open this session)
Chinese Gu Zheng: Selena Xu will play a short melody


3:30-4:30 Haiku workshop for all ages
led by Claudia RadMore at the nearby room
feel free to join this reading, writing and making haiku books at the nearby room
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

Date: April 3 (1-5pm) Sunday
Readers’ Den at central Library
Mississauga, Free Admission

Agenda (MCs: Brent Wood/ Chelsea Tao)
1:00-1:30 Music warm up by Flamenco Guitar: Mark Harry
& Songs from Arlene Paculan
(during this time, please register for Open Mic with Chelsea Tao)
1:30-2:30 Featured Poets (each 10 minutes)
Anna Yin, Ian Williams, Claudia RadMore,
Alexandra Oliver and Max Layton

2:30 Open Mic for all ages
(Max Layton will sing his own songs with guitar to open this session)
Chinese Gu Zheng: Selena Xu will play a short melody


3:30-4:30 Haiku workshop for all ages
led by Claudia RadMore at the nearby room
feel free to join this reading, writing and making haiku books at the nearby room
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia". George won Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001), the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001),of course many other awards. He was appointed to be the Order of Nova Scotia (2006), the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008).

Brent Wood teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is the editor of Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: the Arts of Robert Bringhurst, from McGill-Queens University Press, 2015, and studies poetry in performance.
Chelsea Tao is a poet and spoken word artist from Mississauga, Ontario. She has performed in poetry slams and shows across the GTA, and is honoured to be part of the Ink Movement Mississauga, a youth non-profit organization that encourages artistic expression in youth. With the Ink Movement, Chelsea organizes an annual GTA-wide youth poetry slam in Mississauga's Living Arts Centre that fosters the city's growing passion for the art. She is in her fourth and final year of high school, and plans on taking the beauty and power of poetry with her in the future.
Mark Harry: a flamenco guitarist who resides in Mississauga. His solo guitar sound is a unique blend of Spanish Flamenco, Mexican Folk, Latin Jazz and Pop. Mark composes and arranges all of his own music. He has appeared several times as a musical guest on Rogers Peel TV entertainment show, “Night Time” as well as on CBC Radio-Canada. He keeps a busy schedule as an “In Resident” guitar teacher at the prestigious Merriam School of Music in Oakville and also writes a Guitar Techniques column for Merriam’s website. His most recent CD, ”Into The Night” has been widely received and has had many orders from guitarists all around the world. He plays his brand of Spanish guitar at cafes and clubs in and around the Greater Toronto Area.

Arlene Paculan creates soulful pop with passion. In 2015, she was named the runner-up for NOW Magazine’s Best Songwriter and finished in the Top 10 Regional Finals for CBC’s Searchlight Contest. Arlene has toured across Canada, LA, NYC, and experienced her first DIY European Tour last fall. Her company, Let’s Make Good Productions, produces many events to spread empowerment through art. For this, she received 2014’s Hazel McCallion Volunteer of the Year MARTY Award for her work encouraging others to learn music, write songs and do anything creative in their daily lives.


Anna Yin is Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate and Ontario representative for the League of Canadian Poets. She has authored six books of poetry and her poems have appeared on ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won several awards including the Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTY Literary Arts etc. She also teaches poetry through “Poetry Alive” workshops and the Poets in Schools program.

Ian Williams is a poet and fiction writer. His collection, Personals (Freehand Books, 2012), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Not Anyone’s Anything (Freehand Books, 2011) won of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. You Know Who You Are (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010) was a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He is an English professor at Sheridan College, former Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, and was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC.
Max Layton: The eldest son of Canadian poet Irving Layton, Max is a published novelist and short story writer, Max went legally blind ten years ago and during that difficult period he recorded his first CD of original songs, Heartbeat Of Time. His eyesight eventually restored thanks to the miracle of modern science, Max feels he has been given a second chance. His first book of poems, When The Rapture Comes, was published in 2012 by Guernica Editions and his second CD, 2 The Max, was released at the same time. Max's third and latest CD, It’s A Mystery To Me, was released in 2014 and now Max is celebrating Guernica's publication of another book of poems, In The Garden Of I Am, which Leonard Cohen has called, "One hell of a book!"
Claudia Radmore: A longtime member of Haiku Canada, Claudia Coutu Radmore has been publishing Japanese form poems internationally since the mid-nineties, and has for several years been the editor of Haiku Canada Anthologies. She co-ordinates the international haiku contest, The Betty Drevniok Award. Until 2015, she was the president of KaDo, Ottawa’s haiku group. Author of several books, Accidentals (Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa) won the 2011 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Claudia gives workshops in haiku, renku, tanka and haibun.

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. Her 2013 collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway was the recipient of the 2014 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and was named a Canadian Poetry Book of the Year by The National Post. She is the co-editor (with Annie Finch) of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetry in Meter (Random House/Everyman: 2015), as well as a co-editor of Toronto-based formalist poetry journal The Rotary Dial. Oliver's latest collection, Let the Empire Down (Biblioasis) will be available in Spring 2016. She will be embarking on her PhD studies in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University this September.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia". George won Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001), the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001),of course many other awards. He was appointed to be the Order of Nova Scotia (2006), the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008).

Brent Wood teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is the editor of Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: the Arts of Robert Bringhurst, from McGill-Queens University Press, 2015, and studies poetry in performance.
Chelsea Tao is a poet and spoken word artist from Mississauga, Ontario. She has performed in poetry slams and shows across the GTA, and is honoured to be part of the Ink Movement Mississauga, a youth non-profit organization that encourages artistic expression in youth. With the Ink Movement, Chelsea organizes an annual GTA-wide youth poetry slam in Mississauga's Living Arts Centre that fosters the city's growing passion for the art. She is in her fourth and final year of high school, and plans on taking the beauty and power of poetry with her in the future.
Mark Harry: a flamenco guitarist who resides in Mississauga. His solo guitar sound is a unique blend of Spanish Flamenco, Mexican Folk, Latin Jazz and Pop. Mark composes and arranges all of his own music. He has appeared several times as a musical guest on Rogers Peel TV entertainment show, “Night Time” as well as on CBC Radio-Canada. He keeps a busy schedule as an “In Resident” guitar teacher at the prestigious Merriam School of Music in Oakville and also writes a Guitar Techniques column for Merriam’s website. His most recent CD, ”Into The Night” has been widely received and has had many orders from guitarists all around the world. He plays his brand of Spanish guitar at cafes and clubs in and around the Greater Toronto Area.

Arlene Paculan creates soulful pop with passion. In 2015, she was named the runner-up for NOW Magazine’s Best Songwriter and finished in the Top 10 Regional Finals for CBC’s Searchlight Contest. Arlene has toured across Canada, LA, NYC, and experienced her first DIY European Tour last fall. Her company, Let’s Make Good Productions, produces many events to spread empowerment through art. For this, she received 2014’s Hazel McCallion Volunteer of the Year MARTY Award for her work encouraging others to learn music, write songs and do anything creative in their daily lives.


Anna Yin is Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate and Ontario representative for the League of Canadian Poets. She has authored six books of poetry and her poems have appeared on ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won several awards including the Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTY Literary Arts etc. She also teaches poetry through “Poetry Alive” workshops and the Poets in Schools program.

Ian Williams is a poet and fiction writer. His collection, Personals (Freehand Books, 2012), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Not Anyone’s Anything (Freehand Books, 2011) won of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. You Know Who You Are (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010) was a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He is an English professor at Sheridan College, former Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, and was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC.
Max Layton: The eldest son of Canadian poet Irving Layton, Max is a published novelist and short story writer, Max went legally blind ten years ago and during that difficult period he recorded his first CD of original songs, Heartbeat Of Time. His eyesight eventually restored thanks to the miracle of modern science, Max feels he has been given a second chance. His first book of poems, When The Rapture Comes, was published in 2012 by Guernica Editions and his second CD, 2 The Max, was released at the same time. Max's third and latest CD, It’s A Mystery To Me, was released in 2014 and now Max is celebrating Guernica's publication of another book of poems, In The Garden Of I Am, which Leonard Cohen has called, "One hell of a book!"
Claudia Radmore: A longtime member of Haiku Canada, Claudia Coutu Radmore has been publishing Japanese form poems internationally since the mid-nineties, and has for several years been the editor of Haiku Canada Anthologies. She co-ordinates the international haiku contest, The Betty Drevniok Award. Until 2015, she was the president of KaDo, Ottawa’s haiku group. Author of several books, Accidentals (Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa) won the 2011 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Claudia gives workshops in haiku, renku, tanka and haibun.

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. Her 2013 collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway was the recipient of the 2014 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and was named a Canadian Poetry Book of the Year by The National Post. She is the co-editor (with Annie Finch) of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetry in Meter (Random House/Everyman: 2015), as well as a co-editor of Toronto-based formalist poetry journal The Rotary Dial. Oliver's latest collection, Let the Empire Down (Biblioasis) will be available in Spring 2016. She will be embarking on her PhD studies in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University this September.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com