September 2010
Featuring
KEITH GAREBIAN and JULIE ROORDA
KEITH GAREBIAN
Keith Garebian’s fourth book of poems is Children of Ararat (Frontenac House). He was longlisted for the ReLit Award for Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano (Buschek) and for the LAMBDA Award (Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems). Among his many awards are the Canadian Authors’ Association (Niagara Branch) Poetry Prize (2009), a Dan Sullivan Memorial Award for Poetry (2006), the Lakeshore Arts and Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Prize (2003), and the Naji Naaman Literary Honour Prize (Lebanon) (2009). He lives in Mississauga.
Keith will have his new book available for only $15.00, so bring some cash!
JULIE ROORDA
is the author of three volumes of poetry Eleventh Toe (2001), Courage Underground (2006), and most recently Floating Bodies (2010), all published by Guernica Editions. She has also published a collection of short stories called Naked in the Sanctuary (Guernica Editions, 2004) and a novel for young adults Wings of a Bee (2007) published by Sumach Press. She has been a winner of The Fiddlehead’s annual fiction contest, a finalist for the Confederation Poets Prize and the K.M. Hunter Artists Awards among others, and has published work in several literary journals across North America.
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