In case you’re wondering, T.I.P. stands for Tonight It’s Poetry. When I arrived half an hour early on the evening of March 15th to an empty bar in downtown Saskatoon, I decided that T.I.P. must be a code word for Tonight It’s clear the Pub. But I was, happily, very wrong.
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Monthly Archive for March, 2009
On the morning of March 3rd I read to Reinhold Kramer’s Canadian Literature class. Reinhold is the author of a really fine recent biography of Mordecai Richler, and we were in graduate school together near the dawn of time, although we can’t agree on whether we were both in Robert Kroetsch’s Can Lit seminar (we were).
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All of these readings were with Armin Wiebe. Our first event was in Altona on Feb. 12. There were about 20 people there, and a local newspaper covered the reading. It was the rollicking Rabelaisian humour of Armin’s work that attracted people, although of course the earthy jokes were in low German.
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On Feb. 27 Susan Gillis and I read at the Planet Earth series that’s run by Wendy Morton in Victoria, at the Black Stilt Coffee House. There was an enthusiastic audience, and the irrepressible Wendy gave away a number of unusual door prizes.
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A really nice venue, the Short Line series is now run by Carmen Papalia and a collective from MemeWars magazine, most of them former Capilano College students. On Feb. 24 when I read there, the collective had recently launched a new issue of their mag.
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