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Capilano Review’s Writer-in-Residence: George Stanley
The Capilano Review’s Writer-in-Residence is Vancouver poet George Stanley. From March 8 to 19, 2010, consultations with George will be available. If you are interested please contact Tamara Lee at contact@thecapilanoreview.ca. A maximum of 10 pages must be submitted in advance of the 45-minute appointment.
Also, George Stanley will be giving a reading on March 18, 2010 at 11:30 in the Cedar Building Room 148, North Vancouver campus.
George Stanley was born in San Francisco where, in the 1960s, he was part of the San Francisco Renaissance which included Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and Jack Spicer. He moved to Vancouver in the 1970s. His books include Gentle Northern Summer (New Star 1995), At Andy’s (New Star 2000), his selected poems, A Tall, Serious Girl (Qua Books 2003), Seniors (Nomados 2006), and Vancouver: A Poem (New Star 2008), a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Award. In 2004 George Stanley won the Poetry Society of America’s annual Shelley Award.