Odd Sundays, Fredericton

Poetry reading: Featured reader Joe Blades, at the next odd sundays at molly’s event (and special guest with tv camera, Kirk Pennell, Rogers Television, Channel 10).

sunday, december 3, 2006
2pm Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader, Joe Blades, Joe Blades has been giving readings and publishing his poetry for over a quarter century. Writer, visual artist, publisher (Broken Jaw Press Inc.), and member of the editorial board of ellipse magazine, Blades was born in Halifax. Graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he is also an alumnus of the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Simon Fraser University Book Publishing Immersion Workshop. Based in Fredericton, he has also lived eleswhere in Canada, in New York City and in Senta, Serbia. He gives readings, lectures and workshops across Canada as well as in the eastern USA, Scotland and Eastern Europe. Also, Blades exhibits bookworks, photographs, and objet d’art primarily in Canada and Europe. From 1995 to 2006, he was a community radio producer-host at CHSR 97.9 FM with the award-winning Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Poetry & Writing show. Blades curated Videopoems: a screening for the Tidal Wave Film Festival (2003), and is the editor of nine books and chapbooks including Some Stuff on Canadian Spoken Word & Indie Publishing (NCRA/ANRÉC, 2004). His poetry and art has appeared in over 50 trade and chapbook anthologies, and in numerous periodicals. Blades has authored 28 poetry chapbooks and limited editon artist books. His four full-length poetry books are Cover Makes a Set (SpareTime Editions, 1990), River Suite (Insomniac Press, 1998), Open Road West (Broken Jaw Press, 2000, 2001), and Casemate Poems (Widows & Orphans, 2004). Serbian translations of River Suite (as Reècna Svita) and Casemate Poems (as Pesme iz kazamata) were published in 2005.
Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it. Be advised that there will be a television camera on hand, and some footage from this odd sundays event may be televised on Trevor Doyle Live on December 4.

Join us at 2 pm on Sunday, December 3, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon of poetry. For
information: acalcern@nbnet.nb.ca or
459-1436. Yay New Brunswick, Canada’s poetry province!