Kim Goldberg is an author, poet, photographer and art activist.
She has penned five full-length books, over 2,000 articles, and various
chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies
in North America and abroad including Tesseracts, PRISM International, The
Dalhousie Review, Rampike, filling Station, The Arabesques Review and
elsewhere. Her 2007 book, Ride Backwards On Dragon, is a poetic mapping of
her journey through eight years of silence and Taoist mysticism to emerge
with a newfound voice. It was shortlisted for the Lampert Memorial Award.
Born and raised in Oregon with a biology degree from University of Oregon,
Kim moved to Vancouver Island with her family during the Vietnam War years
and has lived in Nanaimo ever since. She has organized coffeehouses and
other Nanaimo events for Poets Against War and for Writers Against the
War. A frequent performer at local spoken word events, Kim also co-hosts a
periodic Urban Poetry Cafe on a local radio station reading poems from
Guantanamo detainees, the Cuban Five, Iraqi citizens and other
marginalized voices.
In 2006 she staged the Urban Eyes Art Exhibition featuring 52 Nanaimo
artists and architects addressing urban development. She conceived the
show after a vacant lot on her block was bulldozed for condo development,
revealing a homeless encampment. In 2008 she unveiled Nanaimo's first Poem
Gallery in a vacant storefront window, displaying the work of 18 local
poets. Kim is the creator of The Dude Chronicles and other hand-built book
art under her imprint of Pig Squash Press.
Selected Publications
The Dude Chronicles #1: A Day in the Life of Dude and his Buds (Pig Squash Press,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783223-6-6
Ride Backwards on Dragon: a poet's journey through Liuhebafa (Leaf Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9783879-1-4
Slugs only appear slow (Pig Squash Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9783223-3-5
Where to See Wildlife on Vancouver Island (Harbour Publishing,
1997)
ISBN: 1-55017-160-7
Vox Populi: Getting Your Ethnic Group on Community TV (New Star Books,
1993)
ISBN: 0-921586-12-4
Submarine Dead Ahead! Waging Peace in America's Nuclear Colony (Harbour Publishing,
1991)
ISBN: 0-88971-053-8
The Barefoot Channel: Community Television as a Tool for Social
Change (New Star Books,
1990)
ISBN: 0-919573-95-9
Selected Anthologies
Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came To Canada in the Vietnam War
Era (Seraphim Editions,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9808879-1-4
Tesseracts Eleven (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing,
2007)
ISBN: 978-1894063-03-6
Witness to Wilderness: The Clayoquot Sound Anthology (Arsenal Pulp Press,
1994)
ISBN: 1-55152-009-5
Books in Print
The Dude Chronicles #1: A Day in the Life of Dude and his Buds (Pig Squash Press,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783223-6-6, $10.00
Ride Backwards on Dragon: a poet's journey through Liuhebafa (Leaf Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9783879-1-4, $18.95
Slugs only appear slow (Pig Squash Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9783223-3-5, $12.00
Kim Goldberg
E-mail: goldberg@ncf.ca
Website: http://www.pigsquashpress.com/
Link:
http://www.leafpress.ca/Books_Trade/Goldberg_Pages/Ride%20Backwards%20on%20Dragon.htm
Link: http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2007/11/12-or-20-questions-with-kim-goldberg.html
Link: http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/kimgoldbergstorefront.htm
Link: http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/verse/02113710.html