YOU’RE INVITED! LCP ANNUAL POETRY FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE 2012
TO REGISTER: 2012 Poetry Festival and Conference Registration Form
Plans for the League of Canadian Poets’ (LCP) 46th Annual Poetry Festival and Conference are well under way. This exciting three-day event is scheduled for June 15 -17, 2012, conveniently located in downtown Saskatoon at the Park Town Hotel (924 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3H5, http://www.parktownhotel.com/)
The festivities include:
- Friday: Welcome lunch, Feminist Caucus Panel, Feminist Caucus Business Meeting & Open Reading, and the Joe Sherman Memorial New Members reading
- Saturday: Annual General Meeting (includes breakfast and lunch), an open mic, 2 panels (see below), Feminist Caucus Reading, Associate Members Meet and Greet, and the Anne Szumigalski lecture, followed by dinner and award ceremonies.
- Sunday: Book Launch and Brunch
Feminist Caucus Panel: Poetry and the Disordered Mind
Friday, June 15th 2:00pm-3:00pm
Panelists Include: Kemp, Glen Sorestad,Anne Burke and Janet Vickers. Moderated by Lynda Monahan.
Discussion will bring us towards how poetry intersects with mental problems, e.g. how the poet writes about it, or how a poet with mental problems writes, or the therapy aspect of poetry, or the communication aspect for a person with schizophrenia or autism, or the place of confession or autobiography in the tracking of a progressive dementia.
On the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Living Archives Series,
We will launch Epiphanies: Moments in Your Writing Life Which Change You Forever, with papers by Magie Dominic, Katerina Fretwell, and Susan McCaslin. Other epiphanies by Brian Campbell, Suparna Ghosh, Linda-Hutsell Manning, Crystal Hurdle, Candice James, Penn Kemp, M. Travis Lane, Bernice Lever, Honey Novick, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Nela Rio, Carolyn Zonailo.
Join us in Saskatoon for the National Poetry Fest, June 14-17, 2012 for: A Retrospective of Drawings by Heather Spears: a Portfolio from the League of Canadian Poets Annual General Meetings and Poetry Fests.
Independent Publishing
Saturday, June 16th 2:00pm-3:00pm
Panelists include: Jenna Butler from Rubicon Press and Mick Burrs, Paul Wilson from Hagios Press, and publisher Angela Kublik – blue skies poetry. Moderated by Dymphny Dronyk.
This panel will initiate discussion on independent poetry publishing, now and in the future; or the future of poetry publishing as we now know it. Some panelists will give their views from a small press perspective, others will delve into chapbook and self publishing.
Spoken Word Poetry Panel
Saturday, June 16th 3:15pm-4:15pm
Panelists: Charles Hamilton, Brad Bellegarde, Ian Ferrier and Sheri-D Wilson. Moderated by Tracy Hamon.
Panel will discuss the genre’ of Spoken Word poetry, the history of Spoken Word as it is known today and how it evolved with the emergence of “poetry slams” in the 1980s.Panelists will examine Spoken Word as part of the oral culture movement spreading literary expression and how it differs from the mainstream.
Feminist Caucus Reading
Saturday, June 16th 4:15pm-5:15pm
Featuring guest readers are Bernadette Wagner, Katherine Lawrence, Mary Ellen Csamer and Terry Anne Carter
Book Launch and Brunch, co-hosted by Don Kerr and Mark Abley
Sunday, June 17th 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park
*Registration forms will be sent out to all AGM registrants after the May 1 deadline.