The Factory Reading Series
Mike Blouin and Naomi Guttman
Thursday, 27 March 2008
at 7:00 pm (readings at 7:30)
Presented by span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) and
the Ottawa Art Gallery
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON
Lovingly hosted by Monty Reid
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Mike Blouin's work has been published in many Canadian literary magazines, including Descant, Ottawater, Arc, Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Event, The New Quarterly, Grain, Queen's Quarterly, In/Words, and Variations. He has received the Lillian I. Found Prize for poetry from Carleton University and the Diana Brebner Award from Arc Magazine. His first collection of poetry, I'm not going to lie to you (Pedlar Press), was launched in Toronto and Ottawa in the fall of 2007. His first novel will be published by Coach House Press in September 2008. He currently lives in Kemptville, Ontario, where he makes pancakes and wonders about the ominous sounds in his basement. Naomi Guttman was born and raised in Montreal. In 1992, her book Reasons for Winter won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry and was short listed for The League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, as well as an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her second book, Wet Apples, White Blood, was published by McGill-Queens University Press in the spring of 2007. She teaches English and creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Information: The Ottawa Art Gallery the small press action network - ottawa (cleaning out yr literary clogs since 1996); thanks to the Ottawa Art Gallery for providing space and much love.
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