On Thursday, April 29, Frontenac House will launch not four, but TEN poetry books at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival.

As a prelude to the main event, join them at the Triangle Gallery, 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary

From  5:00 – 6:30 pm, there will be Frontenac’s 10th birthday toast, nibbles and a few prizes and surprises.

Then at 6:30 everyone will head over to the John Dutton Theatre, 616 Macleod Trail SE. All ten Dektet poets will read from their new work at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, 7 – 9 pm

• Attenuations of Force, Lori Cayer, Winnipeg, MB
• Children of Ararat, Keith Garebian, Mississauga, ON
• Confessions of an Empty Purse, S. McDonald, Toronto, ON
• ex nihilo, Adebe D. A., Toronto, ON
• Fallacies of Motion, William Nichols, Edmonton, AB
• Falling Blues, Jannie Edwards, Edmonton, AB
• Learning to Count, Douglas Burnet Smith, Antigonish, NS
• [sic] Nikki Reimer, Vancouver, BC
• Standoff Terrain, Jocko Benoit, Calgary, AB
• White Shirt, Laurie MacFayden, Edmonton, AB

Frontenac House would like to thank the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival and WordFest for their support. We appreciate the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Creative Development Initiative and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.