Sponsors
2011-2012
Moon Willow Press is a small, independent publisher helping to sustain arboreal ecosystems while celebrating the written word. MWP is located in beautiful Coquitlam, British Columbia, near Vancouver. In 2011, Moon Willow Press organized the back end of the world-wide event blog, with Michael Rothenberg, by creating the website and map for all the cities and countries. MWP is also organizing the Vancouver event by making a local Vancouver blog, Facebook event page, and working with others in the community to establish a venue and readings.
2011
Fraser Riverkeeper is dedicated to the protection, conservation, and improvement of the water quality and fish habitat of the Fraser River and its watershed. Located in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, they are committed to protecting the Fraser River salmon and the public right to swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. Fraser Riverkeeper is site coordinator for the first event in the day: a False Creek cleanup as part of the World Rivers Day Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
2011
Word on the Street Vancouver is a national celebration of literacy and the written word. On one extraordinary Sunday each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you'll find anywhere. There is always plenty to see and do at Canada's largest book and magazine festival, and best of all, The Word On The Street and all of its events are FREE! Word on the Street is providing the venue at Carnegie Center and an honorarium for the readers.
Organizers
Mary Woodbury, 2011-2012
Mary Woodbury lives in Coquitlam, BC and runs Moon Willow Press. Her mission is to sustain forests while publishing books, which means using only post-consumer or FSC-certified paper, plant inks, chlorine-free processes, and donating to world tree planters who help deprived communities and forests rebuild.
Mary co-founded Jack Magazine with Michael Rothernberg in the summer of 2000 after having run a scholarly site about beat writers since the 1990s. Mary ran Jack until the summer of 2010, but it is still online and is permanently archived at Stanford University's LOCKSS program. Mary worked with Michael Rothenberg on several projects, including an Ira Cohen art gallery, reprint of Gregory Corso's "Way Out" published in Nepal in the 1970s, and Michael's Big Bridge New Orleans Tribute. She is a big fan of the outdoors and worked for three years as Outreach Director at Fraser Riverkeeper. Mary is a graduate of Purdue University, with a BA in both English and anthropology.
Mary was born in the U.S., Louisville, to be exact. And yes, you must pronounce it "Lew-uh-vull." Mary is distantly related to Ned Beatty, but has never met him. Mary loves her southern roots and misses mustard, collard, and turnip greens, which are hard to find in Canada. She spent her childhood a tomboy, climbing the Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains, which were full of copperheads in the summer. Mary grew up in Chicago, and later lived in southern California for a number of years before moving to the Vancouver area, where she lives with her husband -- a huge Canucks fan -- and a cat.
Elaine Woo, 2012
Elaine Woo is a poet, comics-artist, lyricist, and non-fiction writer. She has written about issues such as breaking racial and gender stereotypes, political philosophy, the environment and spirituality in many genres including an interview with Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas, Gene Luen Yang and Chloe Chan. Her work has appeared in Gusts: Contemporary Tanka, Ascent Aspirations, Ricepaper, Asian Cha.com, enpipeline.org, and West Coast Line. She was the keynote reader at a children's literature conference at the University of British Columbia, reader at the Poetry Tent, Word on the Street Festival, Vancouver, and collaborator with composer Adam Hill in the keynote presentation at the 2011 Vancouver International Song Institute's "Playing with Fire Concert." Forthcoming work will appear in the anthology Vancouver V6A, a mural in Vancouver; Whispers Project and enpipeline's anthology. She has an upcoming poetry collection at Moon Willow Press.
At the 2011 Poets for Change event, Elaine read "Seal at Maplewood Mud Flats" (http://enpipeline.org/?p=185) and "Heron at Lonsdale Quay" (http://enpipeline.org/?p=128) from the enpipe line.
Christine Leclerc, 2011
Christine Leclerc worked as web designer/developer in a past life. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poems published by Capilano University Editions in 2008. Her work has appeared in journals across North America, including Interim, TCR, OCHO and The Incongruous Quarterly. She also co-facilitates the Enpipe Line: a 1,173 kilometer-long line of collaborative poetry. To learn more, please visit christineleclerc.com.
Rita Wong, 2011
Rita Wong is the author of three books of poetry: sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books, 2008), forage (Nightwood 2007), and monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998). Wong received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award in 1997, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008. Building from her doctoral dissertation which examined labour in Asian North American literature, her work investigates the relationships between contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization.
An Associate Professor in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she has developed a humanities course focused on water, for which she received a fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is currently researching the poetics of water with the support of a SSHRC Research/Creation grant.
Global Event Organizers
Michael Rothenberg
Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 30 years. He is co-founder of Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. He is a poet, painter, songwriter, and editor of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. He is also co-founder of Jack Magazine, a literary publication that relates to, but expands beyond, the beat generation.
He has published several poetry books: What The Fish Saw (Twowindows Press, CA, 1984), Nightmare Of The Violins (Twowindows Press, CA, 1986), Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1988), Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1990), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum, Inc, 2000), Monk Daddy (Blue Press, 2003), Grown Up Cuba (IL Bagatto Press, Amsterdam 2003) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, 2003). He is also the author of the novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press, 2000).
Editorial projects include Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin Books), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin Books), David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer (Penguin Books), Way More West, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin Books, 2007) and The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen published by Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures' Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and most recently, TriStar Pictures' Outside Ozona. Other songs have been recorded on CDs including: The Darkest Part of The Night by Bob Malone, Difficult Woman by Renee Geyer, Global Blues Deficit by Cody Palance, The Woodys by The Woodys, and Schell Game by Johnny Lee Schell.
His poetry books and broadsides are archived at the University of Francisco, and are held in the Special Collection libraries of Brown University, Claremont Colleges, University of Kansas, the New York Public Library, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-Santa Cruz.
His most recent collection of poems is CHOOSE, Selected Poems published by Big Bridge Press, 2009. My Youth As A Train will be available from Foothills Publishing in September 2010.
He is presently living in the redwoods.
Terri Carrion
Terri was conceived in Venezuela and born in New York to a Galician mother and Cuban father. She grew up in Los Angeles where she spent her youth skateboarding and slam-dancing. Terri earned her MFA at Florida International University in Miami, where she taught Freshman English and Creative Writing, edited and designed the graduate literary magazine Gulfstream, taught poetry to high school docents at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and started a reading series at the local Luna Star Café. In her final semester at FIU, she was Program Director for the Study Abroad Program, Creative Writing in Dublin, Ireland.
Her poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography has been published in many print magazines as well as online, including The Cream City Review, Hanging Loose, Pearl, Penumbra, Exquisite Corpse, Mangrove, Kick Ass Review, Exquisite Corpse, Jack, Mipoesia, Dead Drunk Dublin, and Physik Garden among others. Her collaborative poem with Michael Rothenberg, "Cartographic Anomaly" was published in the anthology, Saints of Hysteria, A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and her chapbook "Lazy Tongue" was published by D Press in the summer of 2007. Her most recent projects includes collaborating on a trilingual Galician Anthology, (from Galician to Spanish to English) and co-editing an online selection of the bi-lingual anthology of Venezuelan women writers, Profiles of Night, both to appear in late August, on BigBridge.org., for which she is assistant editor and art designer.
Currently, she is learning how to play the accordion. Terri lives under the redwoods and above the Russian River in Guerneville, Ca. with her partner in crime Michael Rothenberg, and her dogs Chiqui and Ziggy.
2011-2012
Moon Willow Press is a small, independent publisher helping to sustain arboreal ecosystems while celebrating the written word. MWP is located in beautiful Coquitlam, British Columbia, near Vancouver. In 2011, Moon Willow Press organized the back end of the world-wide event blog, with Michael Rothenberg, by creating the website and map for all the cities and countries. MWP is also organizing the Vancouver event by making a local Vancouver blog, Facebook event page, and working with others in the community to establish a venue and readings.
2011
Fraser Riverkeeper is dedicated to the protection, conservation, and improvement of the water quality and fish habitat of the Fraser River and its watershed. Located in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, they are committed to protecting the Fraser River salmon and the public right to swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. Fraser Riverkeeper is site coordinator for the first event in the day: a False Creek cleanup as part of the World Rivers Day Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
2011
Word on the Street Vancouver is a national celebration of literacy and the written word. On one extraordinary Sunday each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you'll find anywhere. There is always plenty to see and do at Canada's largest book and magazine festival, and best of all, The Word On The Street and all of its events are FREE! Word on the Street is providing the venue at Carnegie Center and an honorarium for the readers.
Organizers
Mary Woodbury, 2011-2012
Mary Woodbury lives in Coquitlam, BC and runs Moon Willow Press. Her mission is to sustain forests while publishing books, which means using only post-consumer or FSC-certified paper, plant inks, chlorine-free processes, and donating to world tree planters who help deprived communities and forests rebuild.
Mary co-founded Jack Magazine with Michael Rothernberg in the summer of 2000 after having run a scholarly site about beat writers since the 1990s. Mary ran Jack until the summer of 2010, but it is still online and is permanently archived at Stanford University's LOCKSS program. Mary worked with Michael Rothenberg on several projects, including an Ira Cohen art gallery, reprint of Gregory Corso's "Way Out" published in Nepal in the 1970s, and Michael's Big Bridge New Orleans Tribute. She is a big fan of the outdoors and worked for three years as Outreach Director at Fraser Riverkeeper. Mary is a graduate of Purdue University, with a BA in both English and anthropology.
Mary was born in the U.S., Louisville, to be exact. And yes, you must pronounce it "Lew-uh-vull." Mary is distantly related to Ned Beatty, but has never met him. Mary loves her southern roots and misses mustard, collard, and turnip greens, which are hard to find in Canada. She spent her childhood a tomboy, climbing the Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains, which were full of copperheads in the summer. Mary grew up in Chicago, and later lived in southern California for a number of years before moving to the Vancouver area, where she lives with her husband -- a huge Canucks fan -- and a cat.
Elaine Woo, 2012
Elaine Woo is a poet, comics-artist, lyricist, and non-fiction writer. She has written about issues such as breaking racial and gender stereotypes, political philosophy, the environment and spirituality in many genres including an interview with Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas, Gene Luen Yang and Chloe Chan. Her work has appeared in Gusts: Contemporary Tanka, Ascent Aspirations, Ricepaper, Asian Cha.com, enpipeline.org, and West Coast Line. She was the keynote reader at a children's literature conference at the University of British Columbia, reader at the Poetry Tent, Word on the Street Festival, Vancouver, and collaborator with composer Adam Hill in the keynote presentation at the 2011 Vancouver International Song Institute's "Playing with Fire Concert." Forthcoming work will appear in the anthology Vancouver V6A, a mural in Vancouver; Whispers Project and enpipeline's anthology. She has an upcoming poetry collection at Moon Willow Press.
At the 2011 Poets for Change event, Elaine read "Seal at Maplewood Mud Flats" (http://enpipeline.org/?p=185) and "Heron at Lonsdale Quay" (http://enpipeline.org/?p=128) from the enpipe line.
Christine Leclerc, 2011
Christine Leclerc worked as web designer/developer in a past life. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poems published by Capilano University Editions in 2008. Her work has appeared in journals across North America, including Interim, TCR, OCHO and The Incongruous Quarterly. She also co-facilitates the Enpipe Line: a 1,173 kilometer-long line of collaborative poetry. To learn more, please visit christineleclerc.com.
Rita Wong, 2011
Rita Wong is the author of three books of poetry: sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books, 2008), forage (Nightwood 2007), and monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998). Wong received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award in 1997, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008. Building from her doctoral dissertation which examined labour in Asian North American literature, her work investigates the relationships between contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization.
An Associate Professor in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she has developed a humanities course focused on water, for which she received a fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is currently researching the poetics of water with the support of a SSHRC Research/Creation grant.
Global Event Organizers
Michael Rothenberg
Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 30 years. He is co-founder of Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. He is a poet, painter, songwriter, and editor of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. He is also co-founder of Jack Magazine, a literary publication that relates to, but expands beyond, the beat generation.
He has published several poetry books: What The Fish Saw (Twowindows Press, CA, 1984), Nightmare Of The Violins (Twowindows Press, CA, 1986), Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1988), Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1990), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum, Inc, 2000), Monk Daddy (Blue Press, 2003), Grown Up Cuba (IL Bagatto Press, Amsterdam 2003) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, 2003). He is also the author of the novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press, 2000).
Editorial projects include Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin Books), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin Books), David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer (Penguin Books), Way More West, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin Books, 2007) and The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen published by Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures' Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and most recently, TriStar Pictures' Outside Ozona. Other songs have been recorded on CDs including: The Darkest Part of The Night by Bob Malone, Difficult Woman by Renee Geyer, Global Blues Deficit by Cody Palance, The Woodys by The Woodys, and Schell Game by Johnny Lee Schell.
His poetry books and broadsides are archived at the University of Francisco, and are held in the Special Collection libraries of Brown University, Claremont Colleges, University of Kansas, the New York Public Library, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-Santa Cruz.
His most recent collection of poems is CHOOSE, Selected Poems published by Big Bridge Press, 2009. My Youth As A Train will be available from Foothills Publishing in September 2010.
He is presently living in the redwoods.
Terri Carrion
Terri was conceived in Venezuela and born in New York to a Galician mother and Cuban father. She grew up in Los Angeles where she spent her youth skateboarding and slam-dancing. Terri earned her MFA at Florida International University in Miami, where she taught Freshman English and Creative Writing, edited and designed the graduate literary magazine Gulfstream, taught poetry to high school docents at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and started a reading series at the local Luna Star Café. In her final semester at FIU, she was Program Director for the Study Abroad Program, Creative Writing in Dublin, Ireland.
Her poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography has been published in many print magazines as well as online, including The Cream City Review, Hanging Loose, Pearl, Penumbra, Exquisite Corpse, Mangrove, Kick Ass Review, Exquisite Corpse, Jack, Mipoesia, Dead Drunk Dublin, and Physik Garden among others. Her collaborative poem with Michael Rothenberg, "Cartographic Anomaly" was published in the anthology, Saints of Hysteria, A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and her chapbook "Lazy Tongue" was published by D Press in the summer of 2007. Her most recent projects includes collaborating on a trilingual Galician Anthology, (from Galician to Spanish to English) and co-editing an online selection of the bi-lingual anthology of Venezuelan women writers, Profiles of Night, both to appear in late August, on BigBridge.org., for which she is assistant editor and art designer.
Currently, she is learning how to play the accordion. Terri lives under the redwoods and above the Russian River in Guerneville, Ca. with her partner in crime Michael Rothenberg, and her dogs Chiqui and Ziggy.
