The Art Bar presents: Rob Taylor, Chris Banks, and Catherine Graham

With Your Host: Rob Welch

Cover: $5, Open mic - $20 first prize, see www.artbar.org for details

Our featured poets:

Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor is the author of the poetry collections The Other Side of Ourselves Cormorant Books, 2011 and The News Gaspereau Press, 2016. Rob has also published five chapbooks, including Lazienki Park, which is forthcoming from the Alfred Gustav Press in December. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and son, where he teaches creative writing at the University of the Fraser Valley and coordinates the Dead Poets Reading Series.

Chris Banks

Banks works include a chapbook, Form Letters 2002. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His most recent collection of poems Winter Cranes published by ECW Press appeared in the fall of 2011. His work has received positive reviews both in Canada and in the United States. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario, where he writes, and teaches at Bluevale Collegiate Institute.

Catherine Graham

Catherine Graham is the author of six poetry collections and the debut novel Quarry. Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and CAA Award for Poetry and The Celery Forest was published this past fall. Winner of IFOAs Poetry NOW, she teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award and at Humber Colleges Creative Book Publishing Program. Published internationally, she lives in Toronto. Visit her at www.catherinegraham.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @catgrahampoet