THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM
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CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE
http://www.cafedeuxsoleils.com/EVERY MONDAY OF THE MONTH
THE NEXT POETRY SLAM
IS
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST
FEATURING
BILLEH NICKERSON
Billeh Nickerson was born on Valentine’s Day, 1972, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billeh Nickerson is the author of the award-nominated The Asthmatic Glassblower, and Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow. He is also co-editor, along with John Barton, of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poet (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007), the first collection of its kind in Canada. A founding member of the performance troupe “Haiku Night in Canada,” he is a past editor of both PRISM International and Event Magazine. He lives in Vancouver, where he works as an event programmer at the Vancouver International Writers Festival and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University College. He is the 2nd Vice-Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada the 2008 Writer in Residence at Queen’s University.
THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE SLAM
FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WORLD POETRY SLAM PLAYOFFS ON SEPT 15TH
PLUS
IT'S THE FIRST SLAM OF THE 2008-2009 REGULAR SEASON
AND
THE FIRST QUALIFYING SLAM FOR THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD PLAYOFFS
THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON IT'S CRAZZZZZZY!
DOORS AND POET SIGN UP AT 8PM
SLAM STARTS AT 9 O'CLOCK
STILL ONLY $5
