29 November 2007 12am - 12am

Thursday November 29th, 2007, 8:00 p.m.

OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is a poet and a translator from Romanian and French to English. Her first book of poetry, Abandon (Wolsak & Wynn), appeared in 2005. Her translation of a selected poems of the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks), appeared in 2006. Excerpts from a work just completed, feria: a poempark, have appeared or will appear in several journals such as the Capilano Review, Event and NO (USA) throughout 2007. She curates and coordinates the Atwater Poetry Project reading series in Montreal and has given readings, performances and talks in Canada, the USA and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

ANGELA CARR is the author of Ropewalk (Snare Books, 2006). Her recent?project is a translation of the concordance to the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris. Selections from this work will be published in the Capilano Review and in dANDelion’s “radical translation” issue this fall. She lives and works in Montreal.

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the?League of Canadian poets for this reading.