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The Yellow Door Coffeehouse also plays a vital part in the city's spoken word scene. Regular poetry and prose readings feature illustrious veterans and talented newcomers.

The Yellow Door

POETRY AND PROSE READING

www.yellowdoor.org/coffeehouse /spoken_word.html/

3625 Aylmer, Montreal (between Pine & Prince Arthur) Tel: 514-398-6243

Producer/host Ilona Martonfi Tel 514-939-4173

ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca

 

Doors open 7:00 pm   Reading 7:30 pm   At the door $5

 

Poets & Prose Writers featured:

Susan Elmslie's

collection, I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick 2006), won the A.M. Klein Poetry Prize. Visit
www.susanelmslie.org

Rawi Hage

His debut novel, DeNiro’s Game, (Anansi, 2006) won the QWF’s McAuslan First Book Prize & the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize.

Colleen Curran

comedic playwright, novelist & actor. Her works include: Cakewalk, Something Drastic, Overnight Sensation & Guests of Chance.

Stephen Brockwell

Author of four poetry books: Fruitfly Geographic won the 2005 Archibald Lampan Award. His latest book, The Real Made Up.

Catherine Bates

Poet & visual artist; author of Counterpane, (Landsdowne House, 1984). Forthcoming, a second poetry book, Earth and Sky Lines.

Robbert Fortin

Director of L’appel des mots at Les É ditions L’Hexagone. Author of ten poetry books. His latest: Les dés de chagrin, The dices of grief.

Rae Taylor

Bilingual poet, visual artist; author of Black Grace (CD). Produces solo Spoken Word shows here & in the American Southwest.

 

The Yellow Door would like to acknowledge the generous contribution of the Canada Council for the Arts.




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