April 25th: Robert Colman and Lisa Richter

 

Robert Colman

 

Robert Colman is a Newmarket, Ont.-based writer and editor. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections – Little Empires (Quattro Books 2012) and The Delicate Line (Exile Editions 2008).
 
His most recent publication is a chapbook of manufacturing-related poems called Factory (Frog Hollow Press 2015).
 
He is pursuing his MFA at UBC, and is on the editorial board of PRISM International literary magazine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lisa Richter

 
Lisa Richter is a Toronto-born writer and English as a Second Language teacher whose poetry has been featured in several journals, including The Malahat Review, The Toronto Quarterly, lichen and The Scrivener Creative Review. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies Jack Layton: Art in Action and Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology.
 
Her first chapbook, intertextual, was published by Pooka Press in 2011. Her long poem “Where the Old Road Begins” was longlisted for the 2015 CBC Poetry prize.
 
She can be found on the Web at www.lisarichter.ca.
 

SHOW STARTS at 7:30 with the open mic…