Carmine Starnino reads at Tree

On Tuesday, February 9, all-around writer Carmine Starnino will be performing at Tree at the Ottawa Arts Court. The evening will begin at 8pm with an open mic, and preceding the reading from 6:45-7:45 Sandra Ridley will host her final workshop for emerging writers.

Carmine Starnino is a poet, essayist, critic and editor of Signal Editions (an imprint of Véhicule Press). His first poetry collection, The New World, was nominated for the 1997 QSPELL A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His second collection, Credo, won the 2001 Canadian Authors' Association Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. His recent publications include With English Subtitles (GP, 2004), Lover's Quarrel on criticism of Canadian poetry, and an anthology called The New Canon. He lives in Montreal.

Sandra Ridley's workshop will be structured loosely around idea-generating writing exercises, complementary poems, and supportive discussion of participant work. Each workshop will be framed by a curiosity about how language, line, image, sound and silence work together to build the atmosphere of a poem. Recurring questions will be: What words do you use? How do you use them? What do they let you say? How do the words engage the reader with the poem?

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Tree readings are held every second and fourth Tuesday of the month in the Arts Court Library, 2 Daly Avenue (behind the Rideau Centre at the corner of Daly Avenue and Nicholas Street). An open-mic set for published writers commences at 8:00 p.m., with the featured readers to follow. A workshop for newer writers is held before the reading from 6:45 until 7:45 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information, please see our web site http://www.treereadingseries.ca/ or contact Tree at 613-292-1886, or email to: treereadingseries@live.ca

The Tree Reading Series gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ottawa Citizen, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Ottawa and our partnership with Ottawa Arts Court Foundation.