RAZOVSKY RULES

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Stuart Ross, aka Razovsky, very generously drove all the way from New Denver, where he's presently doing writing workshops with some very fortunate school kids as well as spending as much time as possible holed up in a cabin being a writer, to Nelson to do a reading tonight.



Two dozen people turned out for it, a testimony to our wonderfully supportive Kootenay audiences. Like, this thing was put together eight days ago! I know for a fact that for at least one person it was their first poetry reading. He was still smiling and making eye contact at the end: always a good sign.



Also in the audience was the Heather formerly known as Fischer. She's been cracking the books at UBC for the past several years, and it was great to see her again.



Nicola Harwood welcomed everyone to Oxygen Art Centre and read some of her poems.



Also reading tonight were Bobbie Ogletree



and Judy Wapp



oh yeah, and me



Stuart read several poems from his new book, I Cut My Finger, and after the reading he sold—and signed—a bunch of books.







I vote we make him an honorary Kootenayite. Nelsonian. Valley Boy. Something like that.

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STUART ROSS READING IN NELSON MAY 9

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The inimitable Stuart Ross is in the Kootenays and is coming to Nelson for one night only to do a reading at Oxygen Art Centre at 7PM, Wednesday, May 9.

Stuart last read in Nelson in 2005. He's a wonderful poet, with great stories to tell, like how, back in the seventies and eighties, he used to sell his self-published chapbooks on the streets of Toronto. (I bought poetry from people on the streets of Toronto in the seventies, but I can't say for sure any of it was Stuart's). He still calls Toronto home, but nevertheless he does manage to get to the Koots fairly often. Often enough to have developed a fondness for borscht.

He has a fun and poetry-focused blog.

He'll be reading from his new poetry collection with a typically irreverent Stuart title: I Cut My Finger.

Joining him will be local writers Judy Wapp, Bobbie Ogletree, Nicola Harwood and Linda Crosfield.

Like it says on the poster, Be There!



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