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SYLVIA ADAMS has published a novel, This Weather of Hangmen, a prize-winning chapbook, Mondrian’s Elephant, and a poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon. She was 2005 winner of the Arc-sponsored Diana Brebner prize and was a finalist for the Malahat Long Poem Award. A poetry group instructor/facilitator, she edits and publishes chapbooks as Adar Press. In 2007 she led a poetry workshop in Chile.

MADHUR ANAND was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1971. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change at The University of Guelph. As a scientist, she has authored over 40 research articles in ecology. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian and American literary journals including CV2, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review and Room and has been anthologized in The Shape of Form, an anthology of creative writing about science. One of her poems was nominated for a Puschart prize. She is co-editing an anthology of poetry about restoration ecology and working on her own poetry manuscript.

TIMOTHY CHARLES ANDERSON has poetry that can be heard in Orbit (it’s a short film directed in Japan by Shunsuke Teshima), and in various poetry journals such as Jones Av, Damazine, and Transparent Words. A graduate of Music Industry Arts, at Fanshawe College, Timothy co-authored a musical storybook, Funtimes The Snail Climbs Large Large Mountain, and today performs songs in Toronto, with a band called Stone Road.

KEMENY BABINEAU lives and writes in Mt. Pleasant Ontario Southwith two daughters, aged 5 and 2, and his ageless wife Laurie.He has been published in some Canadian magazines and has had onechapbook entitled “Aural Geology” published byhousepress and four self published chapbooks, the latest of which,“The Apps Mill Sequence” and “To andFro,” are still available. Currently he is editing apoetry manuscript entitled “What Remains” outof imperfection. Also, he is compiling the forthcoming anthology“The Mentor’s Canon.”

REBECCA ANNE BANKS (Poet, Songwriter, Musician, Singer, Writer, Artist, Philosopher) lives in Montreal, writing about her Muse and the hidden love stories of the island. The poetry and songs are full with the imagine of Summer in the Spirit of Romance within the blue twilight and underground caverns that conjure still and love.

She has many CD projects/videos and poetry books in production and is currently working on the book of poetry In the Time of Winter and the CD:  In Blue, having just completed writing CD:  Of the Spirit Horse, watch www.tympanilanerecords.com for new projects. Of a quiet afternoon she can be found playing concerts amongst the blue and warm of the velvet underground stonework that is the Montreal Metro . . .

BLANCA BAQUERO’S origins are Spanish and French. Born in Chicago, her family moved to Canada in 1959 and made Montreal their new home.

Blanca has been writing for the past fifteen years. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary magazines, university works, and anthologies in Canada and in the United States. In 2001, the Canadian Authors Association chose two of her poems (Repletus and Child’s Play) to be published in their anthology. In 2001 she was the winner of the literary contest organized by the Salon du Livre de la Côte-Nord in the province of Quebec.

For the past seven years the poet has been writing Haïkus. In 2002, 2004, and 2005 several of her haïkus were published in Quebec by Les Éditions David of Ottawa. Additional highlights include: honourable mention in the Betty Drevniok Award 2005 organized by Haïku Canada; the publication of two of her haïkus in Belgium in 2006; and third place winner in a haïku contest organized in Paris, France by l’Association française de haïku.

The writer moved to Nova Scotia in November 2002 and lives on the North Mountain near Canning where she is continually inspired by the pastoral beauty of the Annapolis Valley for her poetry and haïkus.

GWEN BARTLEMAN is a proud, out dyke who was born in Ottawa and has called Toronto home since 1981. She works in theatre and the visual arts and her poems and prose have been published in anacoenisis (TRADE: Queer Things); The Last Sex (St. Martin’s Press); Church Wellesley Review/Xtra Magazine (Pink Triangle Press); Rites Magazine and she has given public readings at Strange Sisters, 40 Tiny Performances, Cheap Queers and The Toronto Fringe Festival. Currently, she is working on Floating in an Eddy of Femme, her first collection of poetry.

MARION BECK was born in Rossendale, England and is a resident of Regina. She is an advocate for autistic children and a founder member and past president of the Canadian Society for Autistic Children. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and literary magazines, most recently Malahat Review, Arc, Pennine Ink 2009 (UK), 6 chapbooks, most notably Poems for Amazon(Moonprint 1995) and Frustrations of an Urban Gardener (2007). She was twice the judge for the Milton Acorn Peoples Poetry book award.

JOANNE (Jo) BELANGER, BA (McMaster), MTS (Queen’s), was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1955. She has had poems published in The Belleville Intelligencer and Umbrella, the bi-monthly newspaper of the Quinte Arts Council. Ms. Belanger is the Chaplaincy Leader at Nicholson Catholic College, Belleville, Ontario and has a private counselling practice through her company, Belanger & Associates. Jo writes for pleasure because playing with words sure beats Sudoku! She hopes to have more time for writing now that she and her partner Terry have just become empty nesters as their seventh child has escaped the nest to go to university!

TINA BIELLO is a poet from Vancouver Island. She has honed her skills as a poet over the years working with many fine poets from B.C., including Patrick Lane and Kate Braid. Her work has appeared in literary publications and is included in ‘A Cello Never Found Me’ and ‘The Root beneath the Stone’, two Glenairely Chapbooks published by Leaf Press. Tina also had published her own book of poetry with Leaf Press called ‘Momenti’, poems that were part of an art exhibition with a watercolour painter from Montreal, Loreta Giannetti. These poems have also gone on to be classically composed in a CD selection called ‘Dolci Momenti’ by 2 singer songwriter sister from Cape Breton, Annette Coffin and Marguerite Thorne.

Tina has a long background in Theatre as an actor, playwright and performer/teacher of Commedia dell’Arte. She is currently working on a manuscript of poetry about her journey with her mother and Alzheimer disease.

MARILYN BOYLE lives in the Caledon Hills.  Her work appeared in the poetry anthology, Celebrating Canadian Women (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), as well as in Poet’s Market. With a chapbook, lyingstill, and membership in SOCAN, she performed readings and interdisciplinary works at many venues, such as Music Gallery, Western Front, Literary Storefront, and The Rivoli, including a one woman show at the ARC gallery.  Her work explores breath, design, and fragment.

JOHN BROOK was born in Shropshire, England in 1931. He servedas a RAF pilot officer, before migrated to Australia in 1953,where he earned a B.A. and subsequently taught English and French.He also holds a diploma in contemporary French culture from Lille,France. His poetry has been published in Australia and Canadaand he was the First Poet Laureate of Kamloops, B.C., where he,now retired, lives with his wife.

DAVID BRYDGES divides his passion for poetry between his home town of Cobalt Ontario where he is artistic director of spring pulse poetry fesival. In Edmonton he verbally jams with kool poetry kats at stroll of poets and raving poets reading series.Blue Apple Press is his self-publishing company where he shares the “juices of the muses”. Poetry is a lifelong lust.

IAN BURGHAM, born in New Zealand, has lived and worked in both New Zealand and Scotland and now lives in Canada. “A Confession of Birds” (Chapbook) was published in the UK by Maclean Dubois in 2003. His first collection “The Stone Skippers” was published in 2007 by Tightrope Books (Canada), Maclean Dubois (UK), and SunLine Press (Australia). His third collection, “The Grammar of Distance” was published in 2010 by Tightrope Books (Canada). In 2004 he won the Queen’s University Well-Versed Award for poetry. In 2008, “The Stone Skippers” was long-listed for the Relit Award.

FERN G. Z. CARR is a former Poet-in-Residence, lawyer, teacher and past president of the Kelowna branch of the BC SPCA.  She composes and translates poetry in five languages.  A winner of national and international poetry contests, she has had her poetry set to music by a Juno-nominated musician.  Carr has been published extensively world-wide including countries as far abroad as Finland, Thailand, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand and India where she has been cited as a contributor to the Prakalpana Literary Movement.  Canadian credits include Prairie Fire, Arc, The New Quarterly, The Nashwaak Review, White Wall Review and Windsor Review.  Carr was also honoured to have had the Parliamentary Poet Laureate choose her poem, “I Am”, as Poem of the Month for Canada.  www.ferngzcarr.com.

ANN ELIZABETH CARSON, BA, MEd – poet, writer, sculptor, feminist, one of ‘Toronto’s Mille Femmes’ (2008 Luminato Festival). Poetry and non-fiction: Shadows Light, The Risks of Remembrance, My Grandmother’s Hair , We All Become Stories (forthcoming). Ann reads at multi-media events, leads arts workshops, belongs to Old Town ARTbeat, Ontario Poetry Society, Tower Poetry Society, League of Canadian Poets. She enjoys the arts of two cultures in Toronto and on Manitoulin Island.

JANICE COLBERT is a Toronto based poet and artist with a background in fashion design and textiles. Her studies in textiles, fashion and art (BFA at OCADU) and experience in the visual, informs her poetry.

Awards include the Marina Nemat Award for Poetry in 2011, the Random House Award in Writing in 2008 (finalist for the award in 2010) several OAC Grants for her painting and finalist for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Her poetry is published in two chapbooks, Angel Hold Still Three 6 vols. (2008) ISBN 978-0-7727-7658-7 and the hand bound The Bird Caged (2011). www.janicecolbert.ca

LILIANA CONTI emigrated from Italy in 1959. She attended both University of Toronto and York University and became a teacher and a mother of five children. Now Lillian Conti has a degree in Theology from Tyndale University and is a licensed Pastor. She is presently teaching Theology, English and Art. The stories and poems in her book: The Two Hearts Of My house, I Due Cuori Di Casa Mia capture the essence of her spirituality.

DALE COOPER lives in Montreal, Quebec.  She graduated high school and her favourite subject was English.  Later on she attended Concordia University for a year and received a Certificate of Office Automation.  She worked in data entry and verification of documents at a local income tax office.  Since she left work she has been writing her poems.  She has been given several Editors Choice Awards Certificates.  She won a bronze medal from The International Society of Poets.  She has a new book called Dale’s Garden of Poetry and it is available at online book stores.

DINA E. COX is a poet, an occasional freelancer, and a musician living in Ontario. Her poetry has been published in CV2, The Gaspereau Review, The Cormorant, Modern English Tanka, Simply Haiku, and in several anthologies including in 2008, Carpe Diem (Les Editions David and Borealis Press), and Ash Moon Anthology (Modern English Tanka Press). She is a past winner of the Betty Drevniok Award for haiku.

LINDA LEE CROSFIELD was born in Nelson, BC in 1948. She worked for Air Canada in Ottawa, Windsor, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, before returning to the Kootenays in 1988. From 1991 to 1996 she studied creative writing at the Kootenay School of Arts in Nelson. Her poems have appeared in Room of One?s Own, Horsefly, The New Orphic Review, Poemata, Between Sleeps (en theos press 2006), Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press 2006), The Fed Anthology (Anvil Press 2003), and in Ways to Get to Here (NIB Publishing 2004). In 2005 her poetry manuscript, Cudda Been Rich, was among the top ten considered for the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award. She?s a member of the editorial committee for Word Works, the Federation of BC Writers? quarterly journal. Linda lives in Ootischenia, near Castlegar, BC, where she writes poetry and prose and creates hand-made books through her imprint, NIB Publishing. NIB stands for nose-in-book, where hers can usually be found. Visit her online at http://web.mac.com/lindacrosfield/iWeb/lindaleecrosfield/Home.html

VIVIAN DEMUTH is an Alberta author of the poetry chapbook, Breathing Nose Mountain, and the ecological novel, Eyes of the Forest. She hosts an annual Poetry on the Peaks at a firelookout, serves on the Freedom to Write Committee of PEN and has taught writing in homeless shelters and the Women’s Studio Center in New York. Her work has been widely published and her  poetry website is: www.poetspath.com/exhibits/viviandemuth

KELLY NORAH DRUKKER’S work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, enRoute Magazine, Room Magazine, Poetry New Zealand and carteblanche. Her set of long poems “Still Lives” won second prize in the 2006 CBC Literary Awards. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers and Cinque à Six, as well as CJAD’s The New Irish Show.  Born in Montreal, Kelly has lived and taught in Switzerland, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom.  She is completing her first collection of poems.

DANIELA ELZA has lived on three continents and crossed numerous geographic and cultural borders. She has released more than 140 poems into the world (in more than 42 publications). Her interests lie in the gaps and bridges between poetry, language, and philosophy. Daniela delights in writing and inspiring others on their writing paths. She lives with her family in Vancouver, and spo.radically blogs at: http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/

PEGGY FLETCHER, born in Newfoundland, living in Sarnia, ON. Author of five poetry books,  four poetry chapbooks, one short story collection, full-length play,  numerous publications in literary journals and magazines  including Antigonish Review, West Coast Review, Small Pond,, Chatelaine,  Poetry Australia.  Has won many awards.  Member of The Ontario Poetry Society, CPA,  P.E.N Canada. Visual art work includes painting, sculpture Married with five grown daughters, many grandchildren  Honors Graduate UWO 1981. Taught English and Creative Writing at Lambton College, Sarnia.

MYRNA GARANIS is a member of the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and the Edmonton Stroll of Poets. Her work has appeared in Eyeing the Magpie; Writing the Land: Alberta Through its Poets; Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan; Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Her on-air credits include CBC Radio’s Alberta Anthology, Poetry Face-Off, and CKUA’s The Road Home.

ELIZABETH GLENNY currently presents writing workshops sponsored by the St. Catharines Public Library for teenagers and adults. From 1999 through 2004 she coordinated a provincial poetry contest and the publication of The Saving Bannister, an anthology, sponsored by the Canadian Authors Association, Niagara. Elizabeth’s poetry has been published in several Canadian literary journals and her first collection of poems will be published in May 2007.

ANN GRAHAM WALKER has published poems in Gapereau Review, Prism International, Ascent Aspirations, Leaf Press Monday’s Poem series, Pitkin Review, the 2008  Rocksalt anthology of British Columbia poets and numerous chap books that have come out of the Glenairley retreats on Vancouver Island.  She has studied with Patrick Lane, Betsy Warland, Brian Bartlett, Jay Ruzesky, Paisley Rekdal, Beatrix Gates, and others. Her poem “Edge of Light” was a finalist in the 2010 Malahat Open Season Awards; another poem, “Bonfire”, was a finalist in the 2010 Prism International Poetry Prize.  Ann has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and has just completed her first novel, The Girl in the Garden, a story of Argentina in the 1950′s, during the era of Juan and Evita Perón.

JOHN J. GUINEY YALLOP is a parent, a partner and a poet. John grew up in a small outport community in Newfoundland. John wrote poetry as an adolescent and as a young adult. His earliest work was published in The Newfoundland Quarterly and The Newfoundland Herald. For his doctoral dissertation, John used poetic inquiry to explore emotions, identities and communities. John’s doctoral studies enabled him to reawaken the poet and to rediscover his poetic voice. Shortly after his dissertation defence in March of 2008, John was hired by Acadia University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. Since his reawakening and rediscovery, John has been writing and publishing poetry. His writing draws on place and memory and opens spaces for conversation. Readers and listeners are invited into those spaces, and invited to bring their own places and their own memories with them.

STERLING HAYES is a writer in retirement, an ex doctor [doctor x] who publishes zany stories and nonsense poetry for Rogers TV, The New Quarterly, Descant, BC History, The BC Medical Journal &c. Two poems were short-listed for the best poems in Canada – one by James Deahl Publishing and latest by Descant magazine [2006]- both non-winners. Writes a humour column for the Kelowna Daily Courier every few weeks.

DAVID W. HENDERSON was born in Victoria, in 1938, and grewup in Vancouver and Hopkins Landing, BC. He has a Bachelor,s degreefrom UBC and a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT. Writing is a relativelyrecent preoccupation for him. His poetry and short stories haveappeared in a modest array of magazines and anthologies. He livesin the Ottawa area.

KEITH INMAN has many hats, but likes the peak and hidden earflaps of his poetry cap best. 1st prize pins in the felt are: Cranberry Tree 07, The Bannister 04, and Freefall 04. Other pins include: Thistledown, Event, New Quarterly, CV2, PRECIPICe and robmclennansblogspot. There’s judging, editing, ‘Reserve’ and ‘Progress’ grant-badges from the OAC, and one from Sigillate Press, for being one of three poets in their book ‘Hanging on a Nail,’ 09. A chapbook, ‘Tactile Hunters,’ by Cubicle Press, was brooched in 05.
Keith wears this cap in and around the backstreets and countryside of the Niagara Peninsula.

SANDRA KASTURI is a poet, writer, editor, and creator of a kids ’ TV series. She has won ARC’s Poem of the Year award and a Bram Stoker Award. She is Senior Editor of ChiZine Publications, and runs Kelp Queen Press. Sandra has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table. Her most recent publication is The Animal Bridegroom, from Tightrope Books.

BRUCE KAUFFMAN was research editor/volunteer coordinator for a poetry reference manual, the Poiesis Poetry Guide (1998). He was shortlisted in the 1995 Poiesis Poetry Competition. His publication credits include a poetry chapbook, seed (The Plowman 2005), a stand-alone poem, streets (thee hellbox press 2009) and a book review in The Antigonish Review (fall 2010) for John Pigeau’s The Nothing Waltz (Hidden Brook Press). His poetry has also appeared in a number of compilations, periodicals and two plays (The Garbage and the Flowers (2008), A Moveable Feast (2009)). He is currently working with Hidden Brook Press/North Shore Series as editor/coordinator for the upcoming anthology That Not Forgotten (2012). He hosts a monthly poetry open mic reading series, poetry @ the artel, and a weekly poetry radio show, finding a voice, on CFRC 101.9fm, www.cfrc.ca (Queen’s University).

SHERRENE D. KEVAN has been teaching at Wilfrid Laurier University for 14 years.  She’s been an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets for about 16 years. She is still writing poetry and occasionally finds one poem that is good enough to submit to a journal or a contest.

MICHE KOHLER was born in Ottawa, and educated in Canada and the United Kingdom.  She has worked as a busker, art director, production supervisor, communications specialist, international development officer, and official elections observer in Africa.  In 2007, Miche was a finalist for the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem.  She received a select scholarship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and an SLS fellowship in 2010.  Her work has been published in the British literary quarterly, Ambit, as well as Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, winning first prize for the fourth Byron’s Quill Award for Poetry.  She currently lives in Ottawa.

ANGELA KUBLIK is an Edmonton based writer whose poetry has appeared in The Prairie Journal, Legacy, and FreeFall, as well as online at DailyHaiku.Org. She co-edited the best-selling anthology Writing the Land: Alberta through its Poets with Grande Prairie poet Dymphny Dronyk. She also edits blueskiespoetry.ca, an online journal that provides a forum for emerging and established poets to find a wider audience for their work, with a particular emphasis on writing by Canadians.

LENORE LANGS‘s poetry has appeared in CV 2,The New Quarterly, University of Windsor Review, andother literary magazines. She organizes and coordinates poetryreadings and reads publicly herself in Windsor and Detroit.

Born in England, PETER A. LETENDRE obtained a BA from the University of Winnipeg. His poems and short stories have appeared in Grain and various on-line magazines. He co-wrote an unpublished children’s novel (The Mistletoe Caper) with Marilyn McNally and collaborated with his wife, Patricia, on a scientific writing book (The Fundamentals of Writing for the Biomedical Sciences) that was translated into Japanese. He has self-published two books of poetry, “If I Could Be A Doughnut” (2008)and “Romantic Life of Toast”(2009). He currently lives in Edmonton.

CAROL LITTLE is a poet and novelist, currently living in Prince Edward Island.  Her first novel, Hide Your Life Away, was nominated for the 2009 Montaigne Medal, winner in the General Fiction category of the 2009 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and a finalist in the 2009 Indie Book Awards.  Little has had poems printed in publications in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.  Her first collection of poetry, A Study in Love, was published in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 Golden Crown Literary Society Award.  http://www.carollittleauthor.blogspot.com/

LOIS LORIMER was born in Brockville and educated at Queen’s, University of Toronto, and The National Theatre School. She’s acted for the Shaw Festival and in film and radio. Her poetry has been published in Hart House Review and Fevered Spring Anthology. Her first chapbook, Last Fall Showing, was published in 2009. Her new chapbook, Between the Houses, was published in Edinburgh by Maclean Dubois. Lois works as a teacher-librarian in Toronto supporting literacy and creative writing.

DEB LOUGHEAD is an award-winning writer living in Toronto.  Her first book of poems, “All I Need and other poems for kids” (Moonstruck Press) was published in 1998. She’s written twelve books for children, some in Norwegian, Swedish and French translations.  Her two rhyming plays, “The Grasshopper and the Ant” and “Hey Diddle Diddle” were published by Scholastic in 2005.  “The Thing I Saw Last Night”, a narrative poem, will be published by Scholastic in fall 2006. www.debloughead.ca

CAROL L. MACKAY‘s poems have recently appeared in Prairie Journal, CV2, Crannog (Ireland), Watershed (Calif. State U., Chico), as well as heard on CBC Radio during National Poetry Month 2008.  Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as “Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing From Alberta”(U of A Press, 1999), “White Ink:  Poems on Mothers and Motherhood” (Demeter Press, 2007), and “Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets” (Blue Skies Press, 2007). A collection of poems, Othala, was short-listed for the 2004 CBC Literary Awards.  She lives on Vancouver Island.

JULIE MAHFOOD was born in Kingston, Jamaica; she is a writer and editor who now lives near Montreal where she hosts WIRE, a quarterly reading series for Montreal’s West Island writers, in addition to raising her two preschool-aged children. Julie was shortlisted in THIS Magazine’s 2008 Great Canadian Literary Hunt; her work has appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Antigonish Review, Room, carte blanche, Telling Stories: New English Stories from Quebec, Bibliosofia (Italy) and on the CD DuBref Session 1: Spoken word anthology, with upcoming in montreal serai.

MARGARET MALLOCH ZIELINSKI was educated in Scotland but now lives in Ottawa. She has received awards from the CBC, CPA, Contemporary Verse 2, and the Lapointe, Milton Acorn, Tidepool, and Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contests. Her work has been published in The Antigonish Review, Geist and Room of One’s Own as well as in various anthologies and was shortlisted twice for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest.  She has published a chapbook, Driftwood and is currently completing her first collection, Blue Tissue Paper.

Joining LCP in 2010, RICHARD McCULLOUGH is a featured international writer in ditchpoetry.ca, and has published poetry in journals and literary magazines in Canada (Pillar and Montage), the U.K (IATEFL Voices) and the U.S (ghazalpage.net).  He is currently writing an MSc dissertation in applied linguistics, focusing on the role of creative writing in language teaching and learning.  This work is presented at the 2011 Asia Creative Writing Conference in Jember, East Java.  He resides with his family, in his native home of Vancouver.

PETER MCEWEN has been involved with the arts for many years as an educator, visual artist, book maker and writer whose work has appeared in various journals and anthologies and on gallery walls. As well, he has published several chapbooks and another “Crossing The Border ” Micro Prose 2009 was a collaboration with T.C. Samford, a poet pal in Rocky River Ohio. His first full length collection of poetry “The Hole in the Wall” was published by Your Scrivener Press in 2008. Peter lives in Oro-Medonte, Ontario with Joanna his wife (a visual artist ) and Luath their Red and White Irish setter pup.

PATRICIA ANNE McGOLDRICK is a Kitchener Ontario writer whose poetry and reviews have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, The WM Review Connection and, most recently, at Chapter and Verse.ca, a review of the award-winning, Plain Kate.

Poems published recently include these titles: Neighbourhood Find, Spices of Childhood, Haiku on Winter at CommuterLit; Girls and Green Apples in taking a bite of the apple–revelations anthology;  Lockdowns in Verse Afire, volume 9, Issue 2, 2012.

History, literature, the environment and upcycling resources for bookmaking are active interests, as well; often, the focus of blog posts.

Patricia is a member of The Ontario Poetry Society and the League of Canadian Poets. Completed the 2009 & 2011November PAD challenges plus 2012 January Challenge with A River of Stones!

STUART IAN MCKAY lives and writes in Calgary, where he was born. His first published poem was in 1993, while studying English literature at the University of Calgary. Since then, Stuart’s work has been published in many Canadian journals, such as Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature and Orange. As Junior Poetry Editor of Dandelion, he helped produce its 25th Anniversary Edition. Issues of culture, place, identity and history are central to Stuart’s work. The long poem is increasingly his favoured medium of poetic expression, and he enjoys the freedom it allows for experimentation in form, structure and language. Stuart is also exploring how poetry can draw other artistic disciplines into a unified voice. Stuart joined the Writers Guild of Alberta in 1999. During 2002 to 2003 he represented the Guild on the Steering Committee of the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. From 2000 to 2001, he was President of the Calgary Society of Poets, Bards and Storytellers, a non-profit organization that produces poetry readings in and around Calgary. Typically, Stuart reads in, organizes or is host for 10 events a year. Many League members have participated in these events, most notably “Poetry on the Peak” at the Banff Centre in March 2002. Stuart was recently Writer in Resident at Rundle College in Calgary, teaching high school students the art and craft of writing poetry. He is pleased to be a member of the League of Canadian Poets. rhmckay@shaw.ca

ANDY MICHAELSON wrote a little in high school and returned to writing poetry and prose as he closed in on retirement age.  Andy joined the Edmonton Stroll of Poets to perform his work and is now a member of the League of Canadian Poets (Associate), Writers Guild of Alberta, Raving Poets Society and co-founder of Poet’s Ink.

Poet’s Ink is a writing and poetry program development organization that services the greater Edmonton area which poetry events and a weekly writing and critique circle.

Often described as a back-fence philosopher, Andy is an artist member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning through the Arts program working with the elementary school curriculum and poetry in grades four, five and six.

His poem Whale Bone was published November 2005 in the Leaf Press chapbook titled Object, ISBN 0-9735920-7-9

His poem Birch and Bird will be published in November 2006 in the Leaf chapbook titled Anecdote.

A compilation of the works of five Poet’s Ink authors, including Andy, Words are Ashes is scheduled for publication and release in early October 2006.

MARY ANN MOORE is a Nanaimo, B.C. poet whose latest chapbook is Those Early Days, Hopeful (Leaf Press 2010). Mary Ann’s poetry has appeared in several anthologies, literary journals and chapbook anthologies that have come out of poetry retreats with Patrick Lane. She teaches life writing courses at Vancouver Island University and offers workshops including “Poetry as a Doorway In.” Mary Ann created a mentoring program called “Writing Home: A Whole Life Practice.”

MARY ANGELA NANGINI has two published poetry books with the scholarly publisher Mellen Poetry Press: Woman In Exile, 1991 and My Ontario Beautiful, 1995. She is an artist, Catholic Teacher and the author of The Four Phases of Being (unpublished, 1992). For more information, she maintains poetry web sites at these locations:
Webshots:http://community.webshots.com/user/nangini
AuthorsDen:http://www.authorsden.com/maryangelanangini
Home web site: http://www.nangini.com

DEBBIE OKUN HILL is the current President of The Ontario Poetry Society and a co-host of a monthly spoken word event in southwestern Ontario. To date, over 190 of her poems have been published in over 80 different publications/websites including Vallum, The Windsor Review, and Other Voices in Canada plus Mobius and The Binnacle in the United States. She has read her work throughout Ontario including the Fringe Stage of the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and has two published chapbooks (Beret Days Press, 2008 and 2011). www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Memberprofile009.htm

JOANNE OSBORNE-PAULSON is a member of Poet’s Ink in St Albert, of The Edmonton Stroll of  Poets, and The Writer’s Guild of Alberta. Joanne holds a B.A. Special with Distinction in English from the University of Alberta. Her poem, Life is Still was published in Dandelion Vol. 9, No. 1 in 1982 . Interlude of Compassion was published in Grain Vol. 24, No. 2, 1996, as an honourable mention in the Short Grain Poetry Contest.  Dream Coat won second place in the 2005 Tangent Lines Poetry Contest. Joanne’s stage adaptation, with Gerry Potter, of Henry Kreisel’s novel, The Rich Man, was published in The Canadian Theatre Review in 1988. Words are Ashes,  a compilation of the works of five Poet’s Ink authors, including Joanne, is scheduled for publication and release in early 2007.

The poetry of KAREN P. OUELLETTE is influenced by years of ballet studies. Her work is published in Kaleidoscope, Windsor Review, Quills Magazine, The Saving Bannister (HM) 2008, 2010, The CV2 2 – Day Poetry Contest (H.M.) 2010, and by Cranberry Tree Press, Black Moss Press and Leaf Press. Karen is one of the “five poets” presented in both A Thousand Yellow Leaves, 2004 and Tongues of Whitewashed Stone, 2008, (Cranberry Tree Press). Her book, Within The Laughter, (Judith Fitzgerald Presents) is an imprint of Cranberry Tree Press, launched at Bookfest Windsor, 2010.

KAMAL PARMAR has been writing since the last 15 years or so. She has numerous publications of her poems and creative non-fiction in many anthologies and journals in Canada and U.S. Currently she has published a poetry book titled ‘Fleeting Shadows’ which is a journey of self-dsicovery as hse reflects about her childhood years spent in India . Her poetry is simple, yet poised and evocative enough to make the reader ponder awhile.

She is also working on another manuscript of poems and personal essays.

LESLEY PASQUIN is a Montreal educator, writer and poet. She currently teaches in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Lesley does readings in various venues in the city including The Yellow Door and Poetry Plus. Her works have appeared in Montreal Serai, carte blanche, Room Magazine and Arc.

T. B. PERRY is a poet and schoolteacher in Calgary. His debut book of poetry, Lessons in Falling, (B House Publications), is a poetic exploration of the complex world of contemporary schools. He has a B. Ed. from the U of A, and is currently working on his MFA in creative writing through UBC’s optional-residency program. His work has appeared in several journals, including Descant and The Prairie Journal. Visit his website at http://tbperry.com/.

BRANKA PETROVIC completed her MA in English Lit. and Creative Writing at Concordia University. She holds a BA in English Lit. and Philosophy from McGill University. She was co-Editor-in-Chief of Headlight Anthology and her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in carte blanche, Branch, CV2, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and The Fiddlehead, among others.

She was interviewed by CKUT radio on the topic of “Women in Art” and was invited to read her poems at The Yellow Door, The Pilot reading series, and the Yellow Art Fish Galerie, and has also read her work at the Nuit blanche 2012 festival in Montreal.

She recently finished a manuscript of ekphrastic poems inspired by the life and work of Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge. She was born in Belgrade, in 1983, and lives in Montreal. www.brankapetrovicpoetry.com.

DAVID ROYCE PHILLIPS fathered his first book of poetry. DONNE RIGHTING POETRY (Lulu.com, 2010) is a collection of 24 poems spanning 24 years. While his duties as a language teacher keep him close to his suburban sanctuary, Phillips revels in his journeys, both
real and imagined. His real ones have taken him overseas reading poetry from Paris to Prague. As for his imagined ones. well, you can read for yourself.

As a graduate student at McMaster University, he wrote his Masters thesis on poet Charles Baudelaire. His own poetry can be found in Canadian Author, Canadian Writer’s Journal, Hamilton Spectator, Tower, Tidepool, Top 40 Anthology, Arts Beat Magazine and Kairos.

JOHN PICKERNELL, born in Toronto in 1966, has been writing poems, stories and songs since the late eighties. John’s poetry has a distinct urban backdrop and his poem, Helping Bobby close the shop, was winner of the 2003 Toronto Poetry Competition. He resides in Toronto with his wife and three sons.

HARRY POSNER’s poetry has been published in Men’s Wellness Journal, Dreamweaver Magazine, Dimensions Magazine, and Quills Literary Journal.  He has self-published several books, including “Book of Questions”, “The Conscious Scribe” and “Wordbirds”, and his children’s stories can be found in the anthology Walking in Fields of Gold.

Harry is a member of Words Aloud poetry collective and is on the organizing committee for WORDSTOCK: COLLINGWOOD’S LITERARY FESTIVAL.   He is active in the Orangeville area promoting poetry in combination with other art forms. Harry was Poet of the Month for March 2010 in the Owen Sound Times newspaper.  He is currently working on his first novel, entitled CHARIVARI.

STEPHEN RONEY was born in the wagon of a travelling show, near Gananoque, Ontario. Years ago, he graduated from Queen’s University, also in Ontario. He went to Syracuse for postgraduate studies, not in Ontario. Past president of the Editors’ Association of Canada, now teaching at Hoseo University, Korea, very far from Ontario. Host of the Seoul Mystery Tours. The wagon rumbles ever westward on. Wagons ho! http://hoseo.ac.kr/~dong/roney.html

Born in 1946, ALLAN ROSE was educated at York University and U. of T.  In his thirty year teaching career, he specialized in English Literature and Creative Writing, especially Poetry. ”The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart” was launched this past January and it has been very welll received – love poems are never out of style, so it seems.  He also has eleven poems in the 2010 national environmental anthology “A Verdant Green”, edited By David Clink, and featuring such luminaries as Raymond Souster, bill bissett and Sandra Katsuri, to name but a few.  Works in progress include “Songs of My City” (poetry about the people and places of his beloved Toronto) and the novella “Hockey Night in New Orleans

R.D. ROY was raised in Montreal, Quebec. His mixed Anglo/Francophone heritage and working class background are often reflected in his writing. He has published two collections of short stories (Panegyric Press) and a short novel, A Pre-emptive Kindness,  (Hidden Brook Press). His short stories and poems have appeared in several anthologies and Montreal’s Matrix  magazine. Roy’s first book of poetry, Three Cities, will be released by Hidden Brook Press in early 2008.

MARY RYKOV was born Maria Helena Rykov in Puerto Rico and grew up writing in Toronto. I have worked as music therapist in four Canadian provinces, publishing songs and articles along the way. I assist clients to unpack writer’s block using the creative modality of Guided Imagery and Music. My poems are published in Jones Avenue, Misunderstandings Magazine, and anthologized in The Art of Poetic Inquiry. I am completing my first poetry collection. www.musictherapyservices.org

SASHA SAINT-AUBIN was born in Toronto, began writing at age 11 and was mentored by Gwendolyn MacEwen. Writing has appeared in Canadian Forum, Waves, Dialogue, Room of One’s Own, Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She. In 2005, the poem, “Death Song,” was shortlisted for Arc’s Diana Brebner Award. Sasha lives in Ottawa and is a freelance researcher, writer, and editor, and a member of the Editors’ Association of Canada.

MEL SARNESE is the poet-in-residence at The Markham Stouffville Hospital where she is facilitator of poetry workshops in the area of mental health.

KAREN SCHINDLER lives in London, Ontario. She is a part-time student at the University of Western Ontario and a co-director of the Poetry London Reading Series.

MICHAEL SHAIN was born in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto (BA), followed by Concordia University (MA) and the University of Windsor (LLB). He has lived on Manitoulin Island since 1990, where he is the Director of the Legal Clinic located on the Sucker Creek First Nations. He teaches the occasional Distance Education Course through Laurentian University and spends his free time in the bush, which is the inspiration for much of his poetry. His work is included in Northern Prospects, Your Scrivener, 1998. shainm@olap.org

CLAIRE SHARPE received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her poems were shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards, and have appeared in journals in Canada and the UK, including CV2 and The Antigonish Review. Her essay on the work of writer Tove Jansson was published in TOVE JANSSON REDISCOVERED(Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Claire received a 2008 Level 1 Writer’s Grant from the Toronto Arts Council.

DOROTHY SJÖHOLM is a retired English teacher who lives and writes in Toronto. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and literary publications in Canada and the UK including Aesthetica, lichen, Open Window II, Renaissance Conspiracy, and Signatures. She has received awards from The Scarborough Arts Council, The Writers’ Circle of Durham Region and The Ontario Poetry Society, and is currently shortlisted in lichen’s “Tracking A Serial Poet Contest.”

CAROL A STEPHEN, native Torontonian, moved to the Ottawa area in 1987.   In 2006, Carol shared her work for the first time at Sasquatch and Tree Reading Series, Ottawa, at Page & Turners and Read’s bookstores, Carleton Place, and at Café Merea, McDonalds Corners.    A member of  Canadian Authors Association and Arts Carleton Place, Carol writes the Arts Carleton Place column,  “Arts Alive!” for the Carleton Place Canadian. Carol has not yet published her poetry.

KATHLEEN SZOKE is a poet and writer, who has published her first chapbook, Heavenly Blue.  She has published several poems in the journals PRECIPICe, Qwerty and Hammered out, and in the anthologies Ascent Aspirations and Main Street. In 2004 she was a Fringe Reader at the Eden Mills Writers Festival.  She lives in Burlington Ontario with her family.

LYNN TAIT Born in Willowdale. Resides in Sarnia. Published in various journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S and Australia, including Windsor Review, Carousel, Quills, Lichen, and Contemporary Verse 2. Has won numerous awards. Published a chapbook “Breaking Away” by Wine@Cheese Press in 2002.

HEATHER TISDALE-NISBET was born in Ontario, in 1960. She graduated from McGill University in 1982 with a B.A. in History. Since then, she has held a variety of office jobs. Her poetry has appeared in such literary publications as Prophetic Voices, Whetstone, Tower Poetry, among others.

MARY TRAFFORD lives in Chelsea, Quebec. Her poetry is just beginning to “get out” and has made it into bywords (1995 and 2003), (muse)Letters (1996), CV2 (1998), ŽFeminist Flavours” (1998) and various chapbook projects. In 2002, she received the inaugural Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry, sponsored by Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine. trafford@magma.ca

URSULA VAIRA has poems in journals and in anthologies by Hawthorne, Outlaw Editions, Anvil Press, and Quills. Her poem, A Thousand Miles, is from a paddle with Roy Henry Vickers in the west coast Salish canoe Nunsulsailus; Frog River, a long poem about a stay in a hunter’s cabin in the remote northern Rockies, has been accepted for Portage Anthology. She placed second in 2009 Literary Writes for “Mr. Bailey.”

Journalist  and communications professional CAROLYNE VAN DER MEER has written for more than 60 publications. A lecturer in McGill University’s Public Relations program, she holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Ottawa, an MA in English Literature from Concordia University, and has done doctoral work in media theory. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Ars Medica, Bibliosofia (Italy), Canadian Woman Studies, carte blanche, Helios and The WOW! Anthology (Ireland). She is a regular reader on Montreal’s poetry circuit and has participated on multiple occasions in Poetry Plus, The Yellow Door and The Visual Arts Centre’s Prose and Poetry Series.

EMMANUELLE VIVIER is a translator. She was born in Paris, France, but has lived in Canada for 20 years. Her English and French work has appeared in Room of One’s Own, The Dalhousie Review, The Windsor Review, Quills, Tower Poetry Society (McMaster University), Ascent and Black Moss Press anthologies. emmanuelle@cogeco.ca

BARBARA WILLIAMS writes poetry and nonfiction. Published in Canadian, U.S. and Australian literary magazines and journals. Columnist on Australian Poetry for Poetry Canada Review, 1984-88. She holds a B.A. from Sheffield University; a post-graduate certificate in Education from Bristol University and an MA. from University of Guelph. Her books include: In Other Words. Interviews with Australian Poets,(Rodopi Editions: Amsterdam & Atlanta, 1998); A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada. The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton (new edition), University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Buffalo, London, 2008). A number of her own poems, written in the voice of Anne Langton, have been published in literary journals in Canada, Australia and the U.S.. She has guest-curated three exhibitions of Anne Langton’s art, one of which is permanently viewable at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/index-personalities.aspx. Available for poetry readings.