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Annual Report from the Feminist Caucus 2015-2016, , by Anne Burke, Chair On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the League, I was invited to contribute two guest blog posts, one general post, talking about what the Caucus does today and what plans there are for the future, and one post looking back at the history of the Caucus for the League 50th anniversary celebration. I have prepared them both for publication. This has been a busy and productive year for The Feminist Caucus and the Living Archives Series of Chapbooks. There were monthly reports sent to the members with the League newsletter and posted on the League website (under programs) of "News from the Feminist Caucus"; with member news, reviews, and regular updates on various on-going initiatives. The League website archives reports, in case you missed one.
FEMINIST CAUCUS REPORTS (by Anne Burke)
Monthly reports from Anne Burke contain book reviews, project and event news, and other information pertinent to members.
2016: May | April | March | February | January
2015: December | November | October | September | August |
July | June | May | April | March | February | January
2014: December | November | October | September | August
We have three titles to launch during the Writers Summit in Toronto and hope you can join us. We also hold our Business Meeting (Caucus AGM during the Writers Summit, but it is free and you do not need to register.)
FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. come and help plan next year's programs. Feminist Caucus breakfast business meeting and open reading. Free for League members. The Feminist Caucus will launch the anthology Women & Multimedia, Poetry
Collaboration/Elaborations, edited by Penn Kemp, with authors Di Brandt, Terry Ann Carter, Penn Kemp, Moe Clark, Jude Neale, and Cathy Petch, in our Living Archives Series. This event is free to members of the League, and may be attended without registering for the Summit.
Saturday, June 18, 2016, Performing Women: Playwrights and Performance Poets, at Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, 4:00pm- 5:00 pm held jointly with the Playwrights Guild.
Six women writers who are playwrights/performers/poets (several are all three), will present their experience and ideas on performance. During the panel, we will also launch an anthology with essays by the panellists, published in the League of Canadian Poets’ Feminist Caucus Archive series (poets.ca/feministcaucus), edited by Penn Kemp. It will be available in print from the League of Canadian Poets and online through playwrightsguild.ca.
Participants: Kelley Jo Burke, Cornelia Hoogland, Penn Kemp (Moderator and contributor), Catherine Kidd, Susan McMaster, and Moe Clark. Miss Lou's Room is a bright and airy room with floor-to-ceiling windows along the south side overlooking the Natrel Pond/Rink and the lake. Miss Lou's Room is located on the second floor of the Bill Boyle Artport. www.harbourfrontcentre.com/venues/misslousroom/
https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/at-the-canadian-writers-summit/
Panelists: Kelley Jo Burke, “Why Ducks, Anyway?”; Cornelia Hoogland, “Red Dresses Hang from the Trees and Towers: Red and Rapunzel are Missing”; Penn Kemp, “I am translated: How does multimedia give form to a poem’s alternate expression?”; Catherine Kidd, “Zoomorphic Poetics (or, Why I Write So Many Poems About Wildlife)”; Susan McMaster, “How does collaboration enhance performance poetry? The Intimate Power of Co-Creation”; Sheri-D Wilson, “Spoken Word Poetry as Political Act”.
THE LIVING ARCHIVES SERIES
The Living Archives Series documents the presentations of the panels sponsored yearly by the Caucus since its founding within the League in 1982; and includes various texts, correspondences, and other works significant to its history and the discussion of women and language in poetry
The Living Archives Series: some recent titles 2015: Women Mentors: Mentoring
Women (launching June 2016) contains original contributions from Di Brandt, Sally Ito, Liz Howard, the 2015 panel was organized by Sonja Greckol, and chaired by Kerry Ryan. (Brief bios notes follow). 2014: Cautionary Tales: Giving Voice to the Elders 2013: Dialogues, Exchanges, Conversations: Women Poets and their Male Mentors
Penn Kemp, winner of the prestigious Golden Beret Award, organized both the Multi-Media and the Performing Women events. Activist poet, performer and playwright, Penn Kemp is Creative Age London Writer-in-Residence. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate for London, Ontario (2010-12), a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets, and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal. Since her first book was published by Coach House Press in 1972, she has been pushing textual and aural boundaries, often in participatory performance work. Penn has published twenty-six books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as several award-winning videopoems.
The printing costs of the Living Archives Series have been donated in kind over the years. For this year it was over $1,000 in printing for one chapbook and two anthologies. In preparing my financial report I came across this discrepancy between the amount(s) cited for 2013 which has been transposed in 2015 as 2014. See below for the actual amounts in 2014. The amount for 2014 was $4,049 and $3,669 for 2013.However the amount for 2014was not carried forward. Instead, the 2013 amount was transposed as the 2014. First, see the 2014 statements. Then compare them with the 2015 statements. We hope this can be corrected in 2016. 2014 Financial Statements
2015 Financial Statements: Note 8 Living Archives 2015 2014 Total revenues $6,520 $ 6, 330 Total expenses 2,661 2, 661 $3,859 $3,669 X
2016 Financial Statements: Note 8 Living Archives 2016 2015 Total revenues 6,590 6,520 Total expenses 2,661 2,661 3,929 3,859 Open to Canadian women, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. This prize is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death by spousal homicide in 1975. The award carries a $1,000 prize. It is presented each year at the LCP Annual Conference in June, with the shortlist announced in April.
Annual Deadline: November 1.
Awards will open for new submissions in August 2016.
Congratulations to the Pat Lowther Memorial Award Finalists. Thank you to all the poets and their publishers for supporting poetry and the memory of Pat Lowther, a past League Chair (President). The winners of all the awards will be announced on Saturday, June 18 at a special awards luncheon at the Canadian Writers’ Summit. the Awards Luncheon and 50th Anniversary Celebration taking place on Saturday, June 18 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm (attendance of this event requires summit registration). Visit poets.ca/conference for more details! Visit our Community page to find interviews with and more information about all the shortlisted authors. Thank you to our hardworking 2016 Jurors: Judith Neale, Vanessa Shields, Joan Shillington, and alternate Sherri D Wilson.
2016 Lowther Submissions
Book Title First Name Last Name PUBLISHER
My Shoes Are Killing Me Robyn Sarah Biblioasis
Decline of the Animal Kingdom Laura Clarke ECW Press
The Pemmican Eaters Marilyn Dumont ECW Press
Dancing on a Pin Katerina Vaughan Fretwell Inanna Publications
Terra Incognita Adebe DeRango-Adem Inanna Publications
A Revision of Forward Wendy McGrath NeWest Press
The Poison Colour Maureen Hynes Pedlar Press
Barren the Fury Brenda Leifso Pedlar Press
A Housecoat Remains Tina Biello Guernica Editions
Verge Lynda Monahan Guernica Editions
Ardour Nicole Brossard Coach House Books
Dear Leader Damian Rogers Coach House Books
Leaving the Island Talya Rubin Vehicule Press
The Exiles' Gallery Elise Partridge House of Anansi Press
The Road In is Not the Same Road
Out Karen Solie House of Anansi Press
Kapusta Erin Moure House of Anansi Press
Stone Soup Kate Marshall Flaherty Quattro Books
Running on the March Wind Lenore Keeshig Quattro Books
Delirium for Solo Harp Nadine McInnis Buschek Books
Niche Basma Kavanagh Frontenac House
Changelings Cassy Welburn Frontenac House
Still No Word Shannon Webb-Campbell Breakwater Books Ltd
Endangered Hydrocarbons Lesley Battler BookThug
The pet radish, shrunken Pearl Pirie BookThug
No Work Finished Here: Rewriting
Andy Warhol Liz Worth BookThug
A Spectacular Influence Chantal Neveu BookThug
Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina Shannon Maguire BookThug
nakamowin'sa for the seasons Rita Bouvier Thistledown Press
Love is not Anonymous Jan Wood Thistledown Press
Exile on a Grid Road Shelley Banks Thistledown Press
Questions for Wolf Shannon Quinn Thistledown Press
Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac Anna Yin Black Moss Press
The Snow Kimono Alona Martonfi Inanna Publications
The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes
from the Opera Naomi Guttman Brick Books
Careen Carolyn Smart Brick Books
This World We Invented Carolyn Marie Souaid Brick Books
Monologue Dogs Meira Cook Brick Books
Karyotype Kim Trainor Brick Books
Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare
Poems Jeanette Lynes Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
We Can't Ever Do This Again Amber McMillan Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
The Wrong Cat Lorna Crozier McClelland & Stewart
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Liz Howard McClelland & Stewart
A New Index for Predicting
Catastrophes Madhur Anand McClelland & Stewart
Hacker Packer Cassidy McFadzean McClelland & Stewart
Trio Sarah Tolmie McGill-Queen's University Press
All the Lovely Broken People Marsha Barber Borealis Press
hook nancy viva davis halifax McGill-Queen's University Press
Kingdom Elizabeth Ross Palimpsest Press
Realignment Ruth Pierson (Roach) Palimpsest Press
Earth Day in Leith Churchyard Bernadette Rule Seraphim Editions
Hocus Pocus The Women Self Published
Ghost Sick Emily Pohl-Weary Tightrope Books Inc.
The Year of Our Beautiful Exile Monica Kidd Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra Elena Johnson Gaspereau Press Ltd.
The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl Sue Goyette Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Talking to the Diaspora Lee Maracle ARP Books
Into This Holy Estate Mia Anderson Wipfand Stock Publishers
Calling Down the Sky Rosanna Deerchild BookLand Press
Ex-Ville Rhona McAdam Oolichan Books
Strange Labyrinth Kat Cameron Oolichan Books
Waiting for the Albatross Sandy Shreve Oolichan Books
The Fire Extinguisher Miranda Pearson Oolichan Books
A Jar of Fireflies Josie
Di Sciascio-
Andrews Mosaic Press
Rue Melissa Bull Anvil Press
Average Height of Flight Beth Kope Caitlin Press
He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car Arleen Pare Caitlin Press
Skeena Sarah de Leeuw Caitlin Press
For Your Own Good Leah Horlick Caitlin Press
Marry & Burn Rachel Rose Harbour Publishing
undercurrent Rita Wong Nightwood Editions
Floating is Everything Sheryda Warrener Nightwood Editions
Hastings-Sunrise Brenda Simmers Nightwood Editions
Eigenheim Joanne Epp Turnstone Press
The Significance of Moths Shirley Camia Turnstone Press
Exquisite Monsters K.I. Press Turnstone Press
Tell: Poems for Girlhood Soraya Peerbaye Pedlar Press
Now Comes the Lightning Sarah Bernstein Pedlar Press
Standard Candles Alice Major University of Alberta Press
Rotten Perfect Mouth Eva H.D. Mansfield Press
The Purpose Pitch Katherine Mockler Mansfield Press
Last Stop, Lonesome Town Tara Azzopardi Mansfield Press
de book of Mary Pamela Mordecai Mawenzi House
Threshold Marilyn Bowering Leaf Press
Sword Dance Veronica Gaylie Exile Editions