ST@NZ@ League's Electronic Newsletter

Newsletter for May 2009

NEWS FROM THE FEMINIST CAUCUS
By Anne Burke, Chair. More on the Eco Poetry Panel.  Plan to join us on Friday, 12 June, 2009, at SFU Harbour Centre, Segal Centre, 1:45-3:15 p.m.  Then plan for next year at the Business Meeting/Open Reading, 5-6 p.m.
 
Magie Dominic, who suggested the topic, says, “I wrote poems about the earth, the damaged sky, our little globe from all perspectives.  The poems were set to music, sung and all recorded.  The process was unique.  The meeting of artistic minds, all strangers, all affected by the state of the earth and wanting to do something and the technology involved to make it happen.”  For full report click here.

B.C. APRIL UPDATE
By Yvonne Blomer. On April 10 Brian Bartlett and Yvonne Blomer read at the Black Stilt Coffee House in Victoria and raised $300.00 through a raffle of (33) fabulous donations for the League of Canadian Poets.  Raffle tickets were 1 for $2/ 3 for $5 or an arm length for $10.  Over 50 people were in attendance to see Brian (from Halifax) and local/LCP B.C. Rep Yvonne Blomer read.  Prizes were donated by Russell Books, Café Ceylon, Ooh La La Cupcakes, Cadboro Bay Books, Munro’s Books, Mole Restaurant, Silk Road Tea House, The Body Shop, The CBC, The Black Stilt Coffee House and books from LCP members (Barbara Pelman, Margot Button, Wendy Morton, Yvonne Blomer, Brian Bartlett, Dennis Reid and John Brooke (Jack Jones)); Barbara Pelman also donated 4 paintings. For full report click here.