Please note, all OPL branches will be closed on Sunday, May 17, and Monday, May 18 for Victoria day.
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Looking for an opportunity to get feedback on your poetry? Join local poets for one-on-one critiquing sessions.
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews, Laurence Hutchman, Eva Kolacz, and Gordan Phinn will be available to sit down for private poetry critiques. Participants are welcome to bring two (2) to three (3) poems to their sessions.
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews is a poet, author, teacher and the host & coordinator of the Oakville Literary Cafe Series. Her new collection, Sunrise Over Lake Ontario, was launched this fall. Her previous poetry publications include: Sea Glass, The Whispers of Stones, The Red Accordion, Letters from the Singularity and A Jar of Fireflies. Josie’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Open Season Award, Descant’s Winston Collins Prize, The Canada Literary Review's Summer Poetry Competition, The Eden Mills Festival Literary Contest and The Henry Drummond Poetry Prize. Her poetry has won first place in Arborealis and in Big Pond Rumours. Josie teaches workshops for the Griffin Award’s Poetry in Voice and for Oakville Galleries. She writes and lives in Oakville, Ontario.
Laurence Hutchman grew up in Toronto and now lives in Oakville. He has taught English at a number of universities including Concordia University, The University of Alberta, Western University and the Université de Moncton at the Edmundston Campus were he was a professor for 23 years. Hutchman has published 11 books of poetry, co-edited with Anne Compton, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada and edited In the Writers’ Words. His poetry has received numerous grants and awards, including the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence. His most recent book is The House of Shifting Time.
Eva Kolacz is an Oakville poet and artist. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. and became an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists. Her works can be found in private and public collections, including, the archives of the Government of Ontario and the national museums of Poland. Kolacz is a published poet and a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario Poetry Society. In 2019 she published her first book of poems Whatever We Are.
Gordon Phinn has been writing and publishing all his adult life, his first book of poetry being "Lyrical Shifts" in 1975 and his most recent "The Poet Stuart" (2019). Many other titles, fiction and non-fiction, have also been issued and are listed on Amazon. Over the years he has ventured into fields of literary journalism, blogging and video blogging and retains an active presence in each. His current project is finishing up his collected literary journalism, "It's All About Me - how criticism reveals the self" for a Spring 2020 release.