Wax Poetic: Warren Fulton

WARREN DEAN FULTON has been performing, publishing, & promoting poetry since the early 90ʼs. He has performed his words as a feature & at open mics in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, San Francisco, New York, & even New Westminster.
He has published now & then in little lit mags in Canada, the US, & the UK. he has published thru his micro poetry press Pooka Press the likes of GG award winners; George Bowering, Stephanie Bolster, John Pass, Patrick Lane & other such well known poets as, Robert Creeley, Susan Musgrave, Heather Haley, rob mclennan, Kate Braid, bill bissett, Marilyn Bowering, John B. Lee, jwcurry, Amanda Earl, Jeffrey Mackie, Todd Swift, Joe Blades, Shannon Rayne, Faust MacKenzie, the Svelt Ms Spelt, RC Weslowski, & SR Duncan, as well as dozens of others.
In addition to the readings & publishing, Warren has also made short videopoems, & literary (poetry) documentary films/videos, one short on THUNDERING WORD HEARD & the late T.Paul Ste. Marie, which played in The Hawaii International Film Festival in 2002.

Check out some links to this poetry at www.poetryradio.blogspot.com
and tune in Wednesday at 2pm PST
102.7fm CFRO

Tomorrow on Wax Poetic: Battle of the Bards

Tomorrow's show will be a big treat as we welcome to of the giants of English literature into the studio. William Butler Yeats, and Robbie Burns. And just in time for Vancouver's biggest St. Paddy's celebration, the 2008 Edgewater Casino CelticFest. Yeats and Burns (along with Dylan Thomas) will be battling it out poetry slam-style, warming up for their big Battle on Thursday, March 13th as part of the Battle of the Bards Literary Pub Crawl. The crawl starts off at Doolin's Pub at 5:30 pm and finishes of in a big way at Ceili's Irish Pub at 8pm with a karaoke face-off where the poets have to spill their words backed by the sonic stylings of DJ Michael Louw and Elise Bouer.
After the ultimate winner is crowned, Louw and Bouer turn it into a crazy celtic dance party.
Tune in to the fun on Wednesday at 2pm PST, or check out our website for more info plus video, audio and pictures from past shows. www.poetryradio.blogspot.com.

Literary: Local Poet Offers "Bonus" Poem With Chapbook Purchase

Poet Rob Taylor has come up with a chapbook, splattered earth. It features a fistful o' poems inspired by some time he spent in China. Here's the set list:


If you'd like a copy, they are available at the People's Coop Bookstore (1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver) and Magpie Books (1319 Commercial) for $2.00, or you can track him down and buy one in person ($1.50, or $1.00 each for orders of 3 or more). Also, you can order one through PayPal now for $3.25 and Rob will send it right to your doorstep. I'm also certainly open to chapbook trades.

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE, I KNOW, BUT IT GETS BETTER: While supplies last, all in-person and online sales will include a bonus poem, "viciously in our throats", from his upcoming chapbook child of saturday.
Go here to order a copy
http://rollofnickels.blogspot.com/2006/03/chapter-book.html
A sample page from the chapbook can be viewed here.

A brief review of the chapbook, by Leopold McGinnis, editor of Red Fez Magazine, can be read here.

Upcoming on Wax Poetic: A Gaggle of 13 Year Old Girls

Tomorrow's show on Coop Radio 102.7 fm should be a real hoot as we bring in a couple of budding young poets to share their work.

Check out our all-new blog: www.poetryradio.blogspot.com with news about upcoming shows, full recordings of episodes and video recorded while on-air.
We are lucky enough to have some of this generation's best poets in our studio every week, no lie.
Be a part of it.

Listen tomorrow at 2pm PST.

Literary: Local Writer Garners Major Award

Commercial Drive writer, Ivan E. Coyote's book, Bow Grip, is the recent winner of the ALA Stonewall Honor Book Award.

The first and most enduring award for lesbigay books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, a total of forty-eight books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.

Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America’s most beguiling storytellers and the author of three story collections, including Loose End, which was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. Bow Grip, Coyote’s first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man’s true rite of passage—trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that’s as big as the endless prairie sky.Arsenal Pulp Press | 9781551522135 | Trade Paper $19.95



Signs of the Times, Bud Osborn/ Richard Tetrault (Anvil Press) 978-1895636710 “... Where Tetrault's strength is in the lines, the communication of emotion through the visual, Osborn's tends more towards the honesty. Real people; real places; real events. This volume is the best value for your money you could ever hope for, as lovers of art, as lovers of people. It puts art into your sweaty hands; it forces you to engage in the politics of humanity." -- Prairie Fire




Both books are available at
People's Co-op Bookstore (est 1945)
1391 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC
V5L 3X5
Tel/Fax 604-253-6442
Toll Free 1-888-511-5556
www.peoplescoopbookstore.com

Today on Wax Poetic

This week on Wax Poetic - Slam team champion, Scruffmouth.
Scruffmouth a.k.a. Kevan Cameron is a scribe, poet, and a performer. He was a member of the 2007 Vancouver Poetry Slam team and has been slamming, since 2004. In addition to slam poetry and spoken word, Scruffmouth is an avid writer, thinker, and dub poet. When he is not playing the beautiful game or involved in revolutionary activities, he may be working in the film industry or trying to find new ways to achieve creative freedom. Kevan Cameron graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2003 with a Bachelor’s Degree of General Studies. He turned down a lucrative offer to flip fries for a living in order to be a poet. It seems to be working out for him so far.

Visit our all-new blog www.poetryradio.blogspot.com with pics, videos and audio from past shows and spoken word events around town.

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Literary: Vancouver Poetry Slam Features Boston's Brian Ellis

THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM
REGULAR SEASON CONTINUES
@
CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE
THE 1ST, 3RD AND 5TH MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
THE NEXT REGULAR SEASON SLAM IS MONDAY JANUARY 21ST
FEATURING BOSTON'S BRIAN ELLIS

Brian Ellis has represented Boston's Cantab Lounge in both the National and Individual World Poetry Slam. His newest book, "Pharmakos," was published by the prestigious Destructible Heart Press. He currently lives in the Whitehaus, a large home filled with artists, writers, musicians and their various subordinates.

PLUS A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE FROM BELLINGHAM'S RYLER DUSTIN
THIS WILL BE ANOTHER QUALIFYING SLAM TO MAKE THE VAN SLAM PLAYOFFS THIS APRIL AND MAY FOR A CHANCE TO MAKE THE 2008 VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM TEAM
DOORS AND SIGN UP ARE AT 8PM
OPEN MIC AT 8:45
SLAM STARTS AT 9 O'CLOCK
STILL ONLY $5 TO GET IN
COME BE A JUDGE
COME SLAM FOR THE FIRST TIME
ALL POETS AND POETIC STYLES ARE WELCOME
604 215 9230 FOR MORE INFO
AND DON'T FORGET THE VANCOUVER YOUTH SLAM HAPPENS ON JANUARY 28TH FEATURING BARBARA ADLER
PLUS THE NEXT "ALT SLAM" IS MONDAY FEB 11TH
THE PAN AFRICAN SLAM FEATURING: BOONAA MOHAMMED

Poetry: Guerrilla Poetry Series @ Morning Glory Tea House Today

Warren Dean Fulton brings his street level Poetry reading to Commercial Drive's Morning Glory Tea House (1340 Commercial Drive) at 3pm this afternoon (Sunday) featuring Trevor Spilchen with a special tribute to friend and fellow poet T. Paul Ste. Marie by long time friend Susan Cormier.
Drop in, pay your respects, have a tea.