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Steve Duncan

A freelance graphic designer, performance poet and former healthcare worker, Duncan has performed on stages locally and internationally. As a member of Vancouverıs first Poetry Slam team, he travelled to Portland to compete in the United States National Poetry Slam in 1996. His broadcasting credits include appearances and interviews on CKNW, CBC Radio and Television, Rogers Cable 4 Daytime (now called Urban Rush) and CFRO, where he co-hosts a weekly spoken word radio show (Wax Poetic). He is past board president of the Edgewise Electrolit Centre and helped to produce the very first Vancouver International Videopoem Festival.
The Poets Corner is organized by S.R. Duncan, R.C. Weslowski and Fran Bourassa.

Marilyn Bowering (Sooke) Bowering has had two volumes of poetry nominated for the Governor Generals Award: Autobiography and The Sunday Before Winter. The former also won the Pat Lowther Award. Her novel Visible Worlds received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize. Bowering is the author of Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems and the novel To All Appearances a Lady.

Wendy Morton (Sooke) In 2002, Morton was sponsored by WestJet Airlines on a ³Celebration of Literacy Tour² across Canada. She read poems on the flights, wrote poems for the passengers and introduced the delights of poetry to some very captive audiences; she has become the ³poet of the skies.She has read and directed workshops in schools and colleges across Canada as well. Her favourite poetry writing experience is writing poems for students following the classes. WestJet is sponsoring her again in 2003. Adopted by Diane Sutherland.

R.C. Weslowski (Vancouver) Weslowski is poetic surrealist brain candy, delving into all reaches of life to astonish audiences with his humorous, thought provoking and sometimes prophetic performance poetry and storytelling. He has unleashed his poetry across North America at festivals and other stages, including the U.S. National Poetry Slam competition. His first CD of recorded poetry, the sound of one hand napping will soon be followed by the tentatively titled the golden banana does not exist. Diane Laloge (Vancouver) Laloge currently facilitates the DTES Women's Poetry Group, founded the reading series PanPoetics, hosts Wax Poetic on CFR0 102.7FM Wednesdays at 2pm, and is the author of Dreams of a Private Woman.

T. Paul Ste. Marie (Vancouver) Spoken word artist, storyteller, side show barker, actor and emcee, Ste. Marie produces spoken word, music and storytelling stages and events, and is the host and driving force behind Thundering Word Heard, a spoken word/music fusion series. He performs on stages from Vancouver to Edmonton to Toronto and in schools across BC, encouraging students to expand their vocabularies, forming a mental constabulary, arresting ignorance at hand. He is been featured on ZeD TV and CBC Radio and is also the shepherd of this Heard of shimmering voices visiting Jericho.

Pandoras Collective Comprised of Bonnie Nish, Heather Neale and Sita Carboni, this Vancouver-based writers collective grew out of a love of writing. Their mandate is Promoting the Arts While Making the World Take Notice of Itself. They host open mics, workshops and contests and are currently organizing a writerıs scholarship fundraiser. www.pandorascollective.com 4:00 Host: Jacques Lalonde (Vancouver) Whether itıs telling his fabulous dragon tales or acting out in front of an adult audience, Jacques Lalondeıs sense of fun and the absurd has made him one of Vancouverıs best-loved and popular storytellers. He is a multi-talented performance and touring artist, writer, actor, slam-poet and teacher; you see him everywhere as One Crazy Frenchman. Just released: the much-anticipated All-Star Dragon Band CD, Dragonland. Wayne Overload Mercier This poet will leave your head spinning in a positive direction with his drum machine beat-driven rhythms and rhymes poeticizing on the signs of our times. He has delivered his transcendent poetics to Shambala, the Vancouver Slam and every place words are welcome.