September 18th: Chris Pannell and Phlip Arima
CHRIS PANNELL
Chris Pannell’s latest poetry book is A Nervous City (Wolsak and Wynn, 2013).
In 2010, his book Drive won the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year.
From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-length anthologies for the group.
He helps organize the reading series Lit Live as well as Hamilton’s gritLIT Literary Festival.
PHLIP ARIMA
Phlip Arima is the author of five books of poetry and fiction, the most recent being Pin Pricks (Quattro Books).
He has also produced an audio CD, and directed and performed a poetry/music/dance collaboration for part of the Figure of Speech series at Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts. His work has been adapted to stage by Newfoundland’s Neighbourhood Dance works in collaboration with RCA Theatre, and to video by Vision Television.
Phlip Arima is the author of five books of poetry and fiction, the most recent being Pin Pricks (Quattro Books).
He is a former Artistic Director of the Art Bar poetry series and was a co-organizer/host of The Basement Reading series as well as one of the rotating hosts for the Syntactic Sunday series.
For more about Phlip and to read samples of his work please visit www.phliparima.com.
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