Okanagan College and Gallery Vertigo Present:

Vertigo Voices Reading Series
Readings begin at 8 pm
Free admission, but suggested donation
of $3.00 goes to support Gallery Vertigo’s
many worthwhile projects

Erin Moure: Friday, November 4th
Erín Moure is a Canadian poet and translator with one foot in Montreal and
one in Kelowna. In her recent O Resplandor (2010) and—with Oana
Avasilichioaei—Expeditions of a Chimæra (2009) poetry is hybrid, and emerges
in translation and collaboration. Moure has translated Nicole Brossard (with
Robert Majzels) and Louise Dupré from French, Chus Pato and Rosalía de
Castro from Galician, Andrés Ajens from Chilean Spanish, and Fernando Pessoa
from Portuguese. Her essays, My Beloved Wager (2009) are a chronicle of 25
years of writing practice. She performs and speaks internationally on poetry
and translation, and her work has been honoured with many awards.

Matt Rader: Thursday, November 10th
Matt Rader’s most recent books is A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the
River Arno. He is also the critically acclaimed author of two previous
collections of poetry, Living Things and Miraculous Hours, which was a
finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the ReLit
Award. His poems, stories, and nonfiction have appeared in journals and
anthologies across North America, Australia, and Europe and have been
nominated for numerous awards, including the Journey Prize, the National
Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives in the Comox Valley on
Vancouver Island.

Harold Rhenisch: Thursday, November 24th
Harold Rhenisch has won the George Ryga Prize for his nonfiction, and the
Malahat Long Poem Prize (2X) and a CBC Literary Prize for his poetry. He
writes and edits poetry, literary and scientific nonfiction, photographic
texts, drama, and their hybrids. His most recent book is "The Spoken World,"
a book of poems about the magical tradition. He writes the blog
okanaganokanogan.com and lives in Vernon.

Media contact:
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
kmcpherson@okanagan.bc.ca