Art Bar Poetry Series presents: Katerina Fretwell, Francine P. Lewis and Jem Rolls

The Art Bar Poetry Series is recognized as the longest running
poetry-only reading series in Canada.

This evening features the works of:

Katerina Fretwell

She was born in wartime New York City, has published five collections of poetry, most recently Samsara: Canadian in Asia, has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Rampike, The Windsor ReView, The Fiddlehead and Jones Av, edited two anthologies for the League of Canadian Poets in 2005 and 2007 and chaired the Lowther Jury Prize, 2006. Her art and poetry reside in Canada, Denmark, Japan and The United States and she sang choral tenor in Maia Vimboule's Spring Fantasy featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell.

Francine P. Lewis

Lewis has had poems published in local magazines and short stories in science fiction anthologies. She has also written articles for the opera magazine, ARIAS. She is the author of one science fiction novel - which is still searching for a home - and is currently working on her second novel, a novella and a collection of poetry. Eurydice Dreams (Conch Pearl Press) is her first chapbook.

Jem Rolls

She is a British performance poet who is a combination of Dr. Seuss, T.S. Eliot, David Byrne and a madman. You know all the words that aren't in Cam and Legs? They're in How I Stopped Worrying and Learnt to Love the Mall. This is Rolls' Odyssey, his epic 8500 word poem about the search for the meaning of the mall, and how he finds it in line at a mall supermarket as Coward of the County plays over the speakers. Rolls starts out at high energy and ends at about Defcon 9. He's the hardest-working poet in the fringe business, and says so many thoughtful, interesting things, he just might change the way you look at life."Bio by Stephen Hunt.

This is a free event. Donations are accepted.

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