ABSTrACTS/RéSuMÉS: An Exercise in Poetry

The A B Series and Ottawa Art Gallery present a reading in the context of the exhibition, 'Fibred Optics'. Local poets have been commissioned to create literary art inspired by Michele Provost's installation 'ABSTrACTS/RéSuMÉS.' Provost's visual art installation references text from contemporary art criticism and forms the raw material for the commissioned poets' projects. Come see what they do January 28th, 2010!

Grant Wilkins has always liked letters, words and paper. Now that he is older and more mature, he likes letters, words, paper and ink.

Pearl Pirie does haiku and visual, corpus-based poetry, form and formless. She has been published in ditch, Ottawater and by AngelHouse Press. Her last chapbook bOATHouse was published by above/ground press. In 2008, Pearl Pirie was one of Tree's Hot Ottawa Voices. Her blog, Humanyms, which she describes as "a verbal sketchpad of being positively human", is widely followed.

John Lavery lives in Gatineau. He is the author of Very Good Butter and You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off, both published by ECW Press. He is a founding member of the Montreal Guitar Orchestra.

Sandra Ridley’s most recent work can be found as a hand-stitched chapbook Rest Cure, published by Ottawa’s Apt. 9 Press. She won the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Lift, and was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry in 2009. Her first manuscript of poetry, Fallout, won the 2008 Alfred G. Bailey Prize and will be published in Spring 2010 by Hagios Press.

Carmel Purkis is a prairie girl who was born by the Atlantic, raised in the north, fell in love with the Pacific and makes Ottawa, Ontario her home. She has been involved in various sound poetry projects over the last several years, including the last couple of installments of MESSAGIO GALORE.

jwcurry is an editor and publisher.

SEE THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY'S PAGE FOR THE EVENT:

http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/exhibits/2009/fibred-optics/ab-series-en.php