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World Poetry Reading Series Final Call: Dorothy Livesay!

By worldpoetry on August 30, 2007 - 12:13am

World Poetry Reading Series Final Call:
Poems or stories to or about Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay for Life Celebration October 29th at the VPL! She was an amazing Canadian poet, fighter for social justice and for women’s rights, winner of many awards who wrote 25 books.

World Poetry is requesting poems and stories about the well known Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay to be on display at The World Poetry Life Celebration of Dorothy Livesay, October 29 at the Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch) in the Alice McKaye room Vancouver, BC.

Please not the following rules:
1) One poem only please. Note: If the poem is in two languages, one page per language is permitted.
2) Size 12 -14 fonts.
3) Name, city and country with a copyright symbol at the bottom.
4) All poems are copyrighted to the writer and used for display purposes only on October 29th. After the event, they will be destroyed unless we have the author’s permission to use them at a later date.
• Deadline for poems and stories: October 20th.
5) Below are two links to more information on Dorothy Livesay. There are many more on the internet.

www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol03/sullivan.htm

www.25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/dorothylivesay.html

Let’s make the life celebration the best ever!
If you have suggestions of people to invite or participate, please let me know.
Thank you,
Ariadne Sawyer, MA
World Poetry Event Planner
Send entries to ariadnes@uniserve.com