The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place at
Clinton’s, 693 Bloor Street West, (Toronto), right by Christie Subway Station.
Click for map: http://www.artbar.org/artbarmap.jpg
Every Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. sharp.
Free, but we pass the hat for donations.
TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2008
James Deahl
James Deahl was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved to
Canada in 1970. He is the author of seventeen literary titles, most recently
When Rivers Speak (Unfinished Monument Press); The River’s Stone Roots:
Two Dozen Poems by Tu Fu (Serengeti Press); If Ever Two Were One
(Aeolus Press). He lives in Hamilton.
Lisa Pasold
Lisa Pasold recently returned to Toronto after living in Paris, France for
the past decade. Last winter, she spent three months in Dawson City, Yukon,
as the Berton House writer-in-residence. As a journalist, she has worked in
such places as Belarus, Marrakech and Kenya. She is the author of two books
of poetry. Weave (Frontenac House) was a finalist for the Alberta Book Award.
A Bad Year For Journalists (Frontenac House) appeared in 2006.
Pier Giorgio di Cicco
Pier Giorgio di Cicco has authored seventeen collections of poetry since
1976 and was a seminal figure in Canadian multiculturalism with his
edition of the first anthology of Italian-Canadian writers. In 1984 he
removed himself from the world of letters and became an Augustinian
Brother, and was subsequently ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood.
He returned to the world of literature in 2000 with four successive
volumes of poetry including The Dark Time of Angels (The Mansfield Press)
which was nominated for the 2004 Trillium Award. He is the Poet Laureate
of the city of Toronto.
