Art in the Park - Poetry Readings

Poetry Readings in Willistead Manor

Art in the Park, Sunday, June 5, 2011, 11:00am. - 3:00pm

CRANBERRY TREE PRESS READERS SCHEDULE

11:00 - 11:50am
Ellie Csepregi
Lenore Langs
Mary Ann Mulhern
Karen P. Ouellette
Kathleen (Kaye) Rockey

11:50 - 12:00 noon - Break. Book sales

12:00 - 12:50pm
Beryl Baigent
Lori Market
Ruth Neily
Marie Groundwater Pottle
Laurie Smith

12:50 - 1:00pm - Break. Book sales

1:00 - 1:50pm
Ellie Csepregi
Donna Hreceniuk (Dunlaith O'Heron)
Lori Market
Ruth Neily
Marie Groundwater Pottle

1:50 - 2:00pm - Break. Book sales

2:00 - 2:50pm
Beryl Baigent
Donna Hreceniuk (Dunlaith O'Heron)
Lenore Langs
Mary Ann Mulhern
Karen P. Ouellette
Laurie Smith

Bio notes for the authors who are reading

Beryl Baigent has just returned from a seven-day reading tour of Vancouver Island While there, she read poems from her most recent book, In Praise of Darkness (Cranberry Tree Press, 2010)and also from earlier books such as And a Branch Shall, Grow: The Irish Connection (Third Eye Publications, 2006), Triptych: Virgins Victims Votives (Moonstone Press, 1996), and Hiraeth: In Search of Celtic Origins (Third Eye Publications 1994). Later in June, she will travel to Wales and will give a Creative Writing Workshop at the Ucheldre Centre on the North Wales island of Anglesey. This workshop will involve the sharing of imagery from T'ai Chi postures (Beryl taught T'ai Chi for 40 years), Chants, and Chinese Characters as new inspiration for poetry writers. Last year she presented the first part of this workshop, and she has been invited back for part two. She will also launch her recent book published by I*D Books, Ucheldre, for the Brymbo History Group. Her new project is a collection of poems based on the emigration of 153 Welsh people to Patagonia, Argentina in 1965. The poems were inspired by a visit to this colony, Y Wladfa, two years ago.

Ellie Csepregi was born in Budapest, Hungary and lived in Vienna, Halifax, Calgary, New York, Vancouver and Toronto, before settling in Windsor. Some of her longer poems have been performed by dance and theatre companies in Vancouver and Calgary. Her work has appeared in blewointmentpress anthology, Meet the Presses Instant Anthology, Wayzgoose Anthologies, Windsor Review, and Rampike. She has also been published in Cranberry Tree Press poetry anthologies.

Donna Hreceniuk (Dunlaith O'Heron) worked as a psychiatric and medical surgical staff nurse at hospitals in the United States and Canada before joining the faculty of the University of Windsor. She is a certified Psychiatric Nurse specialist, Therapeutic Touch practitioner, and reflexologist. She enjoys composing and reading "occasional" poems for family and community events. Her first collection of poems is Comfort Quilt of Poems (Beret Day Press, 2005). While in the Old Man's Garden was published by Cranberry Tree Press in 2010.

Lenore Langs is co-publisher/editor of Cranberry Tree Press and Chair of BookFest Windsor. She is a sometime "Raging Granny" and a member of the singing group "Gaia Women of the Great Lakes Basin." Her poems are published in literary journals and in Eden, A Thousand Yellow Leaves, and Tongues of Whitewashed Stone, all by Cranberry Tree Press. The poem "The Pear Tree," (Tongues of Whitewashed Stone) was one of two poems chosen by LTAC (Literary Translators' Association of Canada) to be translated into other languages for "Words on the Move 2007).

Mary Ann Mulhern is a Windsor teacher and poet. Her first book of poems, The Red Dress (Black Moss Press), received national attention in a CBC interview on Tapestry.
Touch the Dead, also published by Black Moss, was short-listed for the Acorn- Plantos award in 2007.When Angels Weep, (Black Moss Press, 2008), was launched at the University of Windsor, and was short-listed for the Acorn-Plantos award in 2009
Mulhern’s new book, Sleeping with Satan, brings the Salem Witch-hunt into contemporary focus. Sleeping with Satan is published by Black Moss Press. As well as serving as adjudicator for one of the Cranberry Tree Press poetry contests, she has herself been published in CTP anthologies of winning poems

Ruth Neily graduated from the University of Western Ontario in journalism, the first year that the new Department of Journalism graduated a class. She found work in the weekly newspaper field, at the Beamsville Express. She also became a multi-media painter and a poet and has been writing a column in the local newspaper, the Wheatley Journal, for 30 years. Ruth has two books with Cranberry Tree Press: Haphazard Garden (1999) and Morning be May (2008).

Karen P. Ouellette studied ballet for 35 years, and the influence of these studies is seen in her poetry. Her work with the disabled also informs her work. She has been published in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies. As one of the Five Poets, she is featured in A Thousand Yellow Leaves (Cranberry Tree Press, 2004) and Tongues of Whitewashed Stone (Cranberry Tree Press, 2008) Her chapbook, Within The Laughter (CranberryTree Press, JF Presents) was launched at Bookfest Windsor 2010. As a member of The League of Canadian Poets, Karen has read her poetry at local libraries and schools and at public readings.

Marie Groundwater Pottle was born n the Orkney Islands, Scotland and came to Canada as a child. Her treasured family heritage of music, laughter, and "a hundred stories told around the kitchen table" have made her a writer. She was a teacher for many years and hopes to have passed along her love of literature to her students. Her poems are published in A Thousand Yellow Leaves and Tongues of Whitewashed Stone, both by Cranberry Tree Press.

Laurie Smith, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., has over fifteen years experience as a publisher and editor. Laurie is also an award-winning poet and author of short fiction. Among her collections are Gallstones, One Ninth of a Cat's Life, and Menagerie. Current projects include poetry inspired by the work of Charles Darwin and a book based on coming of age in Riverside. She also facilitates Creative Writing workshops in and around Windsor.

Lori Market is an artist and writer whose work has been published in anthologies such as, Delicious, Indelible and Windsor Salt. She is completing her final year in Social Work and is interested in working with refugees, war survivors and child soldiers. She is presently toiling to complete a collection of short stories.

Kathleen (Kay) Rockey is a Windsor Poet and short story writer, as well as a teacher of yoga and reader of Tarot cards.