Wild Writers - A Night of Poetry
Prizes and snacks. $10 or PWYC. Hosted by Georgia Wilder. Two awesome features:
Sharon Goodier has had poems published in Carte Blanche (Montreal), 11th Transmission (social realism – London, Ont), Dove Tales Nature Anthology (U.S.2015) and Adana, an anthology of women’s spirituality (U.S. 2015). She was long-listed for the Mary K. Ballard award (U.S.) in 2014. New Legends Anthology will publish her short story “The Year of the Donkey” in 2016. In 2015, she self-published a book of social justice poetry, *A Stone in My Shoe*. Recently, she completed a mentoring program with Jerry Shikitani through the Canadian Senior Artists Resource Network. She reads widely in
and around Toronto.
charles c smith is a published poet, playwright and essayist who has written and edited twelve books. He won second prize for his play Last Days for the Desperate from Black Theatre Canada, has edited three collections of poetry, has four published books of poetry – including Partial Lives- Williams Wallace Press, and travelogue of the bereaved, Mawanzi House (formerly TSAR Publications) - and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Poetry Canada Review, the Quille and Quire, Descant, Dandelion, the Amethyst Review, Bywords, Canadian Ethnic Studies and others. he has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council for both his poetry and for his work with the ‘wind in the leaves collective’ where he is artistic director of a multidisciplinary performance group involving dance, image, recorded and live music based on his poetry.
charles has published articles with Stanford Law and Policy, University of Toronto Press, Alberta Law Review, Captus Press. His research has been commissioned by several institutions including the African Canadian Community Coalition on Racial Profiling, the Court Challenges Program of Canada, the Chief Justice of Ontario (former) Task Force on Professional Responsibility, the Ontario Ministries of the Attorney General and Community Safety ‘Community Task Force, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
charles is the Cultural Liaison in the Dean’s Office at the University of Toronto Scarborough. he is the Executive Director for Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives where his most recent book is titled “The Dirty War: The Making of the Myth of Black Dangerousness”.