tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67430521523325713272011-07-08T04:49:39.050-06:00Talking Fresh 9Gerald Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05252429320186782729noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743052152332571327.post-46362288996728679792010-08-10T08:58:00.051-06:002011-02-10T12:02:38.951-06:00"Talking Fresh 9: Saskatchewan Poetry Summit", March 4-5, 2011Talking Fresh is an annual festival of writers and writing co-produced by the <a href="http://www.skwriter.com/">Saskatchewan Writers Guild</a> (SWG) and <a href="http://www.luthercollege.edu/university/">Luther College</a> at the University of Regina. <br /><br />"Talking Fresh 9: Saskatchewan Poetry Summit" features <a href="http://birdschmidt.blogspot.com/">Brenda Schmidt</a>, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/818932--karen-solie-wins-75-000-griffin-poetry-prize">Karen Solie</a>, <a href="http://www.arts.uregina.ca/drupal/michael-trussler">Michael Trussler</a> and <a href="http://danielscotttysdal.blogspot.com/">Dan Tysdal</a> applying some fresh talking to the topic of "Saskatchewan Poetry". New this year is a happy hour book launch of new books by former Saskatchewan poets <a href="http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=225">Jennifer Still</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Quiver-Holly-Luhning/dp/1554686962">Holly Luhning</a>. <br /><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Friday March 4</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2:00-4:00 </span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Panel: “On Saskatchewan Poetry”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8:00-10:00</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Readings (reception to follow)</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Saturday, March 5</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9:00-10:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brenda Schmidt: “Lyric Trap-lines: Thoughts on the Northbound Poem”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10:30-11:45 </span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michael Trussler: "The Cosmopolitan Mountain on the Prairie"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1:30-2:45 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Karen Solie: “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This Place Will Kill Me One Day: Writing the Southwest”</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">3:00-4:15 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Tysdal: “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sask Poems from the Future and the Future of Saskatchewan Poetry: Uranium Traced, Screamoetry, and the New and Improved School of Disembodied Poetics”</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4:30-6:00</span><br /><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Happy Hour launch of new books by Jennifer Still (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girlwood</i>, Brick Books) and Holly Luhning (</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Quiver</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, Harper Collins</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div><br />All events in Room 100 at Luther College, University of Regina. Free Parking in Lot 3.<br /><br />View our (incomplete) <a href="http://www.luthercollege.edu/talkingfresh">Talking Fresh archive</a> here.<br /><br />We hope you will join us in March.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.geraldhill.ca/">Gerald Hill</a>, Luther College<br /><a href="http://thamon.wordpress.com/">Tracy Hamon,</a> Program Officer, SWG<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6743052152332571327-4636228899672867979?l=talkingfresh9.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gerald Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05252429320186782729noreply@blogger.com0