ST@NZ@ League's Electronic Newsletter

Newsletter for January 2009

NEWS FROM THE FEMINIST CAUCUS
By Anne Burke. Call for Submissions. As you may know, the 2009 Feminist Caucus Panel will be on “Eco Poetry” Abstracts of about 100 words are welcome and should be emailed to me at: femcaucusburke@yahoo.ca or snail mailed to P.0. Box 61203, Brentwood P.0., Calgary AB T2L 2K6.  Coincidentally, CV2 invites submissions of poetry and prose for The Green Issue: Summer 2009, deadline February 1, 2009, by email to cv2@mts.net or by regular post to 502-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg MB, R3B 1H3.  See details on their website www.contemporaryverse2.ca (and below). For full report click here.

REPORT FOR NEW BRUNSWICK AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
By Judy Gaudet. Poets from both provinces have been very busy writing, publishing, promoting and reading. New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor poet Herménégilde Chiasson read at Harbourfront International Festival of Authors on Friday, October 24th. Greg Cooke is working on a biography of novelist Ernest Buckler. Robert Hawkes read at odd Sundays Sept 21st. Travis Lane read as part of the Campus Authors at the UNB bookstore and at odd Sundays at Molly’s in October, then with Sharon Nelson at the Yellow Door in Montreal on Nov 13th. Ross Leckie spent 3 months beginning in January 2008 as Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University, working on a collection of poetry entitled The Rain’s Superfluity, concerning changing water patterns in the face of global warming. For full report click here.