Amanda Earl gives a Tree workshop, September 13, 2016 (Ottawa)

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 6:45 - 7:45pm

Tree Reading Series

Gallery 101, 51 B Young Street, Ottawa

BEYOND SURFACE: CLOSE READING & RESPONSE BASED ON SOUND, SHAPE & SYMBOL In this workshop we will read a poem aloud & explore its non-semantic attributes to glean elements that resonate in order to write poems in response or simply to appreciate it. Too often in poetry, readers are focused solely on semantic surface meaning rather than considering other elements that make up a poem’s music, and mood. Let’s see what happens when we focus on sound, shape (including line break, punctuation, line length), symbol (including imagery, free association with Jungian archetypes, mythology). Each participant will write something (a line, a poem, an image) inspired by the source poem and will share the results with the group.

Poet,  publisher, fiction writer, Amanda Earl is the managing editor of Bywords.ca , and the fallen angel of AngelHousePress. Her books include Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014); A World of Yes (DevilHouse, 2015);  and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, 2014). She was inducted into the VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour in 2014, and two of her manuscripts have been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award. Her most recent chapbooks are Queen Christina (Ghost City Press, 2016) and firstwalks of the year (In/Words Press, 2016). Amanda is the editor of the AngelHousePress Close Reading Service for New Women Poets. For more information about the service, please visit AngelHousePress.com . For more information about Amanda, please go to AmandaEarl.com and follow her on Twitter @KikiFolle.

http://www.treereadingseries.ca/workshops

followed by the first Tree Reading of the season with an open mic and featured readers: Margaret Christakos and Jessica Moore.

recent videos: Amanda Earl + Monty Reid,

The video of Amanda Earl's recent feature at The TREE Reading Series has been posted online. Also, the ottawa international writers festival has been posting a series of "talking about stories" posts, including one with Amanda Earl, and another with Monty Reid.

Anita Dolman at The TREE Reading Series, December 10, 2013

Ottawa poet, editor and fiction writer Anita Dolman reads at The TREE Reading Series on December 10, 2013 alongside Peter Richardson and Mike Caesar as part of the "local lights" feature. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies (see her bio on the TREE website here), including The Peter F. Yacht Club, Decalogue: Ten Ottawa Poets (Chaudiere Books, 2006) and as an above/ground press chapbook. above/ground press also published her translation of Two Dutch Poets in March 2013. See her "12 or 20 questions" interview here. Her essay, "A little less inspiration, please," was posted as the first in the "On Writing" series on the ottawa poetry newsletter.

Monty Reid + Nina Berkhout at The TREE Reading Series, February 26, 2013

Tuesday, February 26
Monty Reid + Nina Berkhout

Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa
6:45p Workshop – Playing with Constraints with Gwynn Scheltema
8:00p Readings – Open Mic and Featured Reader(s)
http://www.treereadingseries.ca/

Monty Reid
Winner of the 2007 Lampman-Scott Award for poetry and three-time winner of Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry.

Monty Reid was born in Saskatchewan, lived for many years in Alberta, and now lives in Ottawa. His recent publications include Disappointment Island (Chaudiere), The Luskville Reductions (Brick), Site Conditions (Apt 9) and a number of chapbooks from the In the Garden project. He has won Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry on three occasions, a national magazine award, and is a three-time nominee for the Governor-General’s Award. Disappointment Island was shortlisted for the City of Ottawa Book Award and won the Lampman-Scott Award for poetry. Best known as a poet, he has also written children’s books, essays, songs, TV and radio scripts and other writings. He plays guitar and mandolin in the band Call Me Katie.
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Nina Berkhout
Author of five poetry collections and finalist for the 2011 Archibald Lampman Award.

Nina Berkhout is originally from Calgary. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Elseworlds (Seraphim Editions, 2012) and Arrivals and Departures (Buschek Books, 2010), which was a finalist for the 2011 Archibald Lampman Award for the year’s best poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region. Her work has also been shortlisted for THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt and the John Hirsch Award for most promising Manitoba writer. Berkhout holds a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Calgary and a Master’s in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. She currently lives in Ottawa.
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Some upcoming Pearl Pirie readings and appearances in Ottawa:

June 22, 2012, 7pm
Call and Response, SPAO
Season-end reading with the participants of the year's ekphrasis photography-word project at SPAO's Red Wall Gallery, 168 Dalhousie Ave, Ottawa. Readings by various Chaudiere Books authors and not-yet, including Pearl Pirie, Amanda Earl, Monty Reid, Sandra Ridley, Christine McNair, Claudia Coutu Radmore and rob mclennan.

June 25, 2012, 7-9pm
The Muses Reading Series
Elmdale Tavern, 1084 Wellington Street West, Ottawa. With poetry by Pearl Pirie and music by the percussion group Kunundrum. Donations support the Peace and Environment News, a community newspaper based in Ottawa.

Sat. June 30, 2012, 12:00-5:00pm
Ottawa Small Press fair
Ottawa small press fair at the Jack Purcell Arena, just off Elgin St, Ottawa. See what's new in Ottawa papery goodnesses. Lots of booths and my books, and maybe even a few new chapbooks from phafours.

Tues. Aug 14, 2012, 6:45-7:45pm
Tree Seed Workshop
Radical Revision at the Arts Court, 2nd floor, just east of Rideau Centre, Ottawa. Sometimes we attach to the concept or sound of a poem too early and let its bones harden. Let's use the material of poems as malleable starting points. Bring half a dozen copies of a poem you want to tear apart using a few techniques.

www.pearlpirie.com

some upcoming Pearl Pirie readings,

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie presents a workshop at 6:45pm, and then launches her second trade collection, Thirsts (Montreal QC: Snare Books, 2011) at 8pm at Ottawa's TREE Reading Series on Tuesday, January 24, 2012; another reading to follow on Friday, March 2 at 7pm as part of Ottawa's second annual VERSeFest poetry festival.

Pearl Pirie on Monty Reid's "You Are Here," Ottawa literary mapping tour/project

Pearl's note on a new project hosted by The TREE Reading Series is now up at Local Tourist Ottawa.

Monty Reid (workshop + reading) with George Amabile at the TREE Reading Series, Ottawa, October 11, 2011

George Amabile + Monty Reid
Tuesday October 11
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa

6:45pm Free Workshop
Monty Reid on You Are Here

In this series of 4 workshops, we will explore the spaces in and around Arts Court, the end result being a collaborative digital map with poems.

8:00pm Readings
Dead Poet Reading, Open Mic and Featured Reader(s).

George Amabile
Published in over 100 anthologies, magazines and journals, George Amabile is also the author of 7 books.

Monty Reid
Monty Reid's Disappointment Island won the Lampman-Scott Award for poetry, and he is also a 3-time winner of Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry.

Ottawa's Robert Kroetsch shortlist -- Pirie, McNair + Ridley/Earl - at the TREE Reading Series

The four Ottawa-based authors of the three (including the winner) of the nine titles shortlisted for this past year's Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Writing read as part of the next edition of The TREE Reading Series. Tuesday, August 23, 8pm at the Arts Court feature Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie (who won this year, with her award-winning manuscript appearing any minute now with Snare), Christine McNair (whose shortlisted title is forthcoming with BookThug in spring 2012) and collaborators Sandra Ridley and Amanda Earl.

Michael Bryson reading on YouTube, from The TREE Reading Series,

Michael Bryson's featured reading at The TREE Reading Series, November 24, 2009, is now posted on YouTube.