The Writers' Collective

[ February 15, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm. ]

Come for Mondo! Stay for More Poetry!!!!

Tuesday, February 15 · 8:00pm – 10:30pm

@ Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street

Featuring Michelle Elrick reading from To Speak, Vanessa Moeller reading from Our Extraordinary Monsters and The German Dad Letters (with Germanic accompaniment from Maurice Mierau), and Clarise Foster reading from The Way Boys Sometimes Are.

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Michelle Elrick grew up on a mountain overlooking the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. She now lives in Winnipeg…

I love this picture ’cause she’s holding a hammer. More poets should hold hand tools in their bio pics. I am inspired! My next pic will have to involve a machete i think! you think?

I am most looking forward to this Speaking Crow and hearing more from the poet and fiction writer who wrote some very divine poetry like,

“So we sit here, over the darkness,
over the rippling black water
where unsteady stars waver.
We wait for trains.”

and…