Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
December 5, 2014 by Elee
A little fruit from yesterday’s class where we wordsquatted in the song lyrics of Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Laura Barron reimagined lyrics to We Three Kings! An Anti-Christmas Carol (to the tune of We Three Kings) Video games and flat screen TV’s. (Nights on my own with a book, if you please). Nike, Armani, and… Continue reading Holiday Jingle
June 6, 2013 by Elee
Join us for a celebration and selected readings from our perfect-bound, 108 page beauty! Wed, June 19, 2013, doors at 8pm Brickhouse Bar, 730 Main St, Vancouver Accessible, free, all welcome The Stanza Project is our 6th book of creative writing by Downtown Eastside writers and is a collaboration with Dutch architect MLP Proosten.… Continue reading The Stanza Project launches!
April 11, 2013 by Elee
In a recent class Matt Malyon introduced us to the german term widerruf, loosely translated as to revoke, contest, appeal. To answer back. All writing is a conversation. Yet when we consider the idea of widerruf as we write we engage with the text in a more immediate and intimate way. Suddenly we are on… Continue reading Widerruf
March 15, 2012 by Elee
Geist magazine is holding an Erasure Poem contest, deadline Aug 1, 2012. Details are here. Erasure poems are poems made by erasing or blacking out words and sections from a text and reading the remaining words as the new text. This is a tactic we have been experimenting in as part of our investigation… Continue reading Poetry Contest
January 20, 2012 by Elee
The Stanza Project stanza: n., an arrangement or grouping of lines within a poem. Origin: Italian. room, station, stopping place. This spring we launch The Stanza Project, an international collaboration between Belgian architecture firm MLP Proosten and Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective. As residents of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) members of TWC recognize and confront systematic… Continue reading The Stanza Project – an intro to our pilot project for spring 2012