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eMigrations Podcast 21 features a reading by poet Erin Moure. This is another reading from the On Edge Reading Series vault.

Erín Mouré is a poet and translator based in Montreal. Her 11th collection of poetry, O Cidadan (Anansi, 2002) is a troubled yet hopeful consideration on what "citizen" could mean in our era; it was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person (Anansi, 2001, as Eirin Moure), her transelation from the Portuguese of Alberto Caiero/Fernando Pessoa's O Guardador de Rebanhos, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. A Frame of the Book, aka The Frame of a Book (Anansi, Toronto; Sun & Moon Press, LA) and Pillage Laud (Moveable Type Books, Toronto) both appeared in 1999; Search Procedures in 1996 (finalist for the Governor General's Award). Her 1988 Furious (Anansi) was awarded the Governor General's Award for poetry, and WSW (Vehicle Press, Montreal, 1989) received a QSPELL poetry prize. Moure's recent book of poetry, Little Theatres, won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was also nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry. She has given talks and readings across Canada as well as in the USA, France, Spain, England and Japan.

This reading took place on Feb 15, 2007, at the Emily Carr Institute for Art + Design, as part of a Canada Council Sponsored Literary Reading series, On Edge, which is co-sponsored by ECI.

eMigrations Podcast 20 features another reading from the On Edge vault, a reading by novelist Francisco Ibanez Carrusco.

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco was born in Santiago de Chile in 1963. Hisfirst novel Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001 and nominated for the Regional Commonwealth Prize in 2002. In 2004, he co-edited a volume of essays with Erica Meiners entitled Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public (Routledge/Falmer). His first collection of short stories, Killing Me Softly/Morir Amando hit the shelves in January of 2005 published by Suspect Thoughts Press. His short stories have been included in Contra/Diction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998), Best Gay Erotica 2000(Cleis Press), Of the Flesh (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2001),and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (Carol and Graff Publishers, 2001). Francisco teaches at Goddard College in Vermont since 2004.This reading took place on Jan. 18, 2007 at 7 p.m.

The On Edge Reading Series gratefully acknowledges the support of the Emily Carr Institute and the Canada Council for the Arts.

This is a podcast featuring a reading by Betsy Warland. Betsy is reading as part of the On Edge series at Emily Carr Institute for Art + Design. The reading took place on Feb 8, 2007.