Grey Borders Reading Series presents an evening of poetry

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 7:00pm

Niagara Artists Centre
354 St.Paul Street
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 3N2

Grey Borders Reading Series welcomes Phil Hall, Susan Holbrook, Stephen Cain and Helen Hajnoczky to the Niagara Artists Centre.

Phil Hall’s poetry has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award. Among his many titles are Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992) and Hearthedral – A Folk-Hermetic (1996). He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Seneca College, George Brown College and elsewhere. He has been poet-in-residence at Sage Hill Writing Experience (Sask.), The Pierre Berton House (Dawson City, Yukon) and elsewhere. In 2007, BookThug published Phil’s long poem, "White Porcupine." His most recent books of poems are The Little Seamstress (2010) and Killdeer (2011). He currently offers a manuscript mentoring service for the Toronto New School of Writing. He lives near Perth, Ontario.

Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed (Nomados 2004) and misled (Red Deer 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She recently co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford U P, 2010).

Stephen Cain is the author of I Can Say Interpellation (Bookthug, 2011) and three earlier poetry collections such as American Standard/ Canada Dry (Coach House, 2005), Torontology (ECW, 2001) and dyslexicon (Coach House, 1998). He has also composed a collaborative series of micro-fictions, Double Helix (Mercury, 2006) with Jay MillAr and co-authored, with Tim Conley, The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (Greenwood, 2006).

Helen Hajnoczky's first book, Poets and Killers: A life in Advertising is available from Snare Books. Her work has appeared in fillingStation, Matrix, NoD, Rampike and Speechless magazines, as well as in a variety of chapbooks. Helen is the former poetry editor of fillingStation magazine and has recently completed an MA in medieval literature and manuscript culture.