LOVE POETRY FESTIVAL 2016 - First Half

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The first Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn and Gwen MacEwen, Saturday, August 6, 2016 at St. Andrew by-the-Lake Anglican Church on Centre Island, Toronto. A video by Henry Martinuk, Chernozym Video The first half of the Love Poetry Festival featured George Elliott Clarke & mc Michelle Alfano introducing poets 07:43 Trevor Abes 21:15 Karen Mulhallen 31:29 Whitney French 40:00 Honey Novick 53:00 with Roger Sharp - piano [second half: https://youtu.be/2AranGeN3Zk ] George Elliott Clarke is Canada's seventh national Poet Laureate. From 2012-2015, he was Toronto's 4th Poet Laureate. Revered for his poetry, he has published fifteen volumes, including three that have won prizes. In addition, he has poetry books translated into Chinese, Italian, and Romanian. Michelle Alfano served as an Associate Editor with the literary quarterly Descant until 2015. Her novella, Made Up Of Arias, was the a winner of the Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story “Opera” was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been widely published in Canada in major literary publications. She is currently at work on two projects: a memoir entitled The Unfinished Dollhouse and the novel Destiny, think of me while you sleep. Trevor Abes is a poet and essayist with a penchant for conceptual art. As part of the Toronto Poetry Slam team (2015), he represented the city in both the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the National Poetry Slam. He is currently theatre critic at The Theatre Reader. Karen Mulhallen’s new book of poems, Seasons in the Key of J, will be published in Spring 2017 by Tightrope Books. Her most recent book of poetry is The Code Orange Emblazoned Suite (Black Moss Press, 2015). Code Orange was published in English and in French, with translations into French by Nancy Huston. It was launched in Toronto and in Paris in the Fall of 2015. Whitney French is a writer, storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist. She's been published in a couple of places and written a few collections but she takes more pride in the community she builds than the things she produces. She is the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine. She also created the successful workshop series titled: Writing While Black, an initiative to develop a community of black writers, which is presently on tour, travelling to audiences in Montreal, New York and Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Detroit, and Halifax. Honey Novick is a singer/songwriter/voice teacher/poet. A full member of the League of Canadian Poets and 2015 Member of the Year of the Ontario Poetry Society. Sanguine Encounters with Greatness (2016), was published for the Spring Pulse Poetry Festival, Cobalt. Please visit www.honeynovick.com.