Thursday, June 2, 2011

Stephen Collis & Garry Thomas Morse @ PFB


Stephen Collis and Garry Thomas Morse will read from their work @ PFB on Thursday, June 9, 2011.

Reading starts at 7:30pm, Thursday, June 9, 2011.  Limited seating, arrive early if you want a chair!

Stephen Collis is the author of Mine, Anarchive, The Commons, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good, Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism, and On the Material. A member of the Kootenay School of Writing, he teaches American literature, poetry, and poetics at Simon Fraser University, while continuing his work on “The Barricades Project.” His most recent book On the Material, is the winner of the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

Garry Thomas Morse is the author of Transversals for Orpheus, Streams, Death in Vancouver, After Jack, and aDiscovery Passages. In 2008, he received the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist. His new book Discovery Passages is the first collection of poetry about the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) First Nations.