Arts Event

GARY BARWIN is active as a writer, composer, and performer. His music and writing have been published and presented in Canada, the U.S., Japan, and Europe. He has published numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, visuals and fiction, including Doctor Weep and other Strange Teeth, and, with derek beaulieu, frogments from the frag pool. Forthcoming book include his third poetry collection with Coach House, The Porcupinity of the Stars and The Obvious Flap, written with Gregory Betts (BookThug) and, Franzlations (New Star) with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley. His chapbook, Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham) was a co-winner of the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Award. He edits the Supernova Tadpole series for Paper Kite Press in Pennsylvania. His writing and visual texts have appeared in numerous anthologies, and magazines. His work has been commissioned and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition from SUNY at Buffalo. He graduated from York University with a BFA in Music and a BA in Creative Writing. He was the recipient of the 1998 Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the KM Hunter Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council. Seeing Stars, a YA novel, was a finalist for both CLA YA book of the year, and an Arthur Ellis Award.

Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Doors open at 7pm / Reading at 7:30pm