Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts
Date:
Friday, February 20, 2009
Doors:
7:30pm
Performance:
8:00pm
Cost:
$7 at the door 
Photo courtesy of Gary BarwinGregory Betts is the author of If Language (2005), Haikube (2006), and The Others Raisd in Me (forthcoming, Fall 2009). He is the Co-Editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series in St. Catharines. His poetry, essays, and manifestos have appeared in books, journals, and anthologies across Canada and in six countries besides. He currently lives in St. Catharines where he teaches Canadian and Avant-Garde Literature at Brock University.
Poet, writer, composer, and performer, Gary Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His work has been performed and published internationally. His books include frogments from the frag pool (poetry; with derek beaulieu), Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth (fiction), Raising Eyebrows (poetry) and Outside the Hat (poetry). A new book of poetry, is forthcoming from Coach House. His PhD thesis was a composition combining live computer processing, spoken text, and electronics. He can be found at garybarwin.com and serifofnottingham.blogspot.com.
On February 20th, Barwin and Betts read from The Obvious Flap, a performance text in progress that includes dialogue, mixed-media, and sound poetry.
Recordings of past performances by Barwin & Betts can be heard here:
http://www.aslongasittakes.org/Issue2/fromTheObviousFlap.mp3
http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_download_shared_file&file_id=f_20025...
http://greyborders.blogspot.com/2008/08/audio-files-of-grey-borders-read...
Related Barwin recordings:
http://www.aslongasittakes.org/Issue2/TheSquirrelofLove.mp3
http://www.norddahl.org/tregawott/leikur/garybarwin.html
Image courtesy of Gary Barwin
