bill bissett
originalee from lunaria planet far past venus 312 on th first childrns shuttul from ther 2 erth inishulee baffuld by erthling wayze am now in2 trying 2 deel always wantid 2 write n paint from lunaria i landid on that first childrns shuttul in halifax left ther b4 2 decades wer up 2 vankouvr 2 write n paint alwayze interestid in sound n vizual writing th lettr in th image n th pickshurs in th lettr alwayze in love with vowells latest books time from talonbooks n novel also from talonbooks latest cd with pete dako ths is erth thees ar peopul n luddites 86-91 both from blu loon producksyuns n rumours uv hurricane with bill roberts from fitzhenry n whiteside
Alex Leslie
Alex Leslie’s chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects For The New World was published in Summer 2011 by Nomados. Her collection of short stories People Who Disappear will be published by Freehand in April 2012. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in journals and anthologies throughout Canada and have won a CBC Literary Award and a Gold National Magazine Award. She's currently guest editing the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead Magazine.
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Readings by bill bissett and Alex Leslie
bill bissett, poet and Alex Leslie, author
Piano Lounge, Graham House, Green College, UBC
January 18 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Mark Vessey has been invited to the University of Bristol to give the Blackwell-Bristol Lectures 2013 at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
Dame Anne Salmond will give three talks on how different cultures define and communicate ways of being.
May 07, 2013The Global Civic Policy Society presents a Public Salon on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:30-9pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. A diverse range of speakers from very different walks of life will each spend 7 minutes speaking about something they are passionate about.- May 01, 2013Applicant Paul Yachnin (McGill University) and fifteen co-applicants including Green College Principal Mark Vessey received funding to begin their multi-disciplinary project entitled "Forms of conversion: religion, culture, and cognitive ecologies in early modern Europe and its worlds."
- April 26, 2013Green College resident Brittany Welsh describes how the daunting task of mounting four shows of Shakespeare's The Tempest helped and inspired her and her colleagues in ways she hadn't envisioned when she started down the Bard's path five months earlier.
January 04, 2013Seven Green College students volunteered at Lord Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver as part of UBC’s Community Learning Initiative TREK program, matching groups UBC students with elementary schools in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and helping with reading and writing lessons and tutoring students on a one-on-one basis.
