POW! FESTIVAL
- WEEKEND SCHEDULE
POW! acknowledges
the support of
The League of Canadian Poets,
and The Canada Council for the Arts
through the Writers' Union of Canada
www.poets.ca
The League of Canadian Poets,
and The Canada Council for the Arts
through the Writers' Union of Canada
www.poets.ca
Check
out the inside of the Venue - 66 King East
Thursday - April 16, 2009
Cobourg Poetry Workshop Regular Monthly Reading
Starts at 7:30 pm - admission is free
CPW
Member reader - Roz Bound
Guest
Reader - Edward Carson
CPW Member Reader - Grahame Woods
MC - Mark Clement
~ POW! Begins ~
Opening Reception Friday April 17th @ 6:30 pm
POW! # 1
Friday - April 17, 2009
7:30 pm
Poetry Reading
Ken Sherman
Jacqueline Larson
Eric Winter
( Check out Eric's Festival Chapbook )
&
~ OPEN MIC STARTS @ 9:30 PM ~
POW # 2
Saturday April 18, 2009
12:00 pm
Children's Poetry Reading
JonArno Lawson
Art Cockerill
Linda Hutsell-Manning
Jo Ellen Bogart with Eddie Douglas
MC - Rhonda Perry - Cobourg Children's Librarian
POW! # 3
Saturday April 18, 2009
3:30 pm
Lecture
Mike Barnes, "The Lily Pond, a Memoir
of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis."
A special presentation by one of the Poets
using prose that is quite poetic,
that is both a memoir of 30 years
living with bipolar disorder
and a unique "consumer's" perspective
on the mental health system
&
4:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Paul Brown, Mike Barnes
--
Paul Brown's Reading will be a Book Launch event
for his new book Wolf Pack of the Winisk River.
POW! # 4
Saturday April 18, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Diana Kuprel & Marek Kubisa
Reading from "I Wrote Stone" their translation of
Ryszard Kapuscinski's poetry
with sample readings in the original Polish
&
7:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading by Ted Amsden
MC - Bridget Campion
&
8:15 p.m.
"WORDMUSIC"
Poetry Recitation by David Calderisi,
a professional actor, presenting from memory
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert W. Service,
Edward Lear & John Keats
MC - Bridget Campion
&
~ OPEN MIC STARTS @ 9:30 PM ~
POW! # 5
Sunday April 19, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Karen Dukes of Picton (with Roz Bound) reads her
"Meditative response to the Lord's Prayer"
MC - Eric Winter
- Sponsors for this event -
SMM Law & Reg Ward Insurance Services Ltd.
- & -
1:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion:
"Whither the Book? / Wither the Book?"
panelists: Tim Inkster (Porcupine's Quill),
Beth Follett (Pedlar Press) & Dan Wells (Biblioasis)
M.C./moderator Eric Winter, Poet Laureate of
Cobourg and CPW founder
Sponsor for this event - Cameco
POW #6
Sunday April 19, 2009
3:00 pm
Poetry Reading
Marta Cooper
Oana Avasilichioaei
Ronna Bloom
MC - Glenda Jackson
End of POW! Festival
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