Susan McMaster is a Canadian poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Her new poetry collection is Until the Light Bends from Black Moss Press in 2004; it was shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry, and the Ottawa Book Award for best book of the year. Her new spoken word CD is Until the Light Bends, with Geode Music & Poetry, from Pendas Productions Poet is a term applied to a person who composes poetry, including extended forms such as dramatic verse. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ville dOttawa, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 106 24 Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ...

Susan's recent book, Waging Peace, collects the poetry, art, and texts from Convergence: Poems for Peace, which presented art-wrapped poems from across Canada to all MPs and Senators in 2001. She's published poetry books, wordmusic, performance poetry recordings, and scripts; edited collections and series; founded Vernissage, the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and the national feminist magazine Branching Out (1973-); and was an original member of the intermedia group First Draft, (1981-), with members including Andrew McClure and Colin Morton. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... For the hypertext system, see Intermedia (hypertext) Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Colin Morton (born 1948) is a Canadian poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. ...

Since 1996, she has been the wordsmith in Geode Music & Poetry (formerly SugarBeat), recording two spoken word and music CDs with Jennifer Giles on keyboards, Alrick Huebener on bass, and friends including Penn Kemp, Dave Broscoe, Jamie Gullikson, Mike Essoudry, Petr Cancura, and John Higney, and performing at 50-plus venues including the National Library, Kingston Fringe Jazz Festival, Rasputin's, Blue Skies Music Festival, CKCU Ottawa Folk Festival, Elora Music Festival, Artscape, and Ottawa International Writers Festival. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Penn Kemp is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet who lives in London, Ontario. ... United States Library of Congress, Jefferson building A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. ... The CKCU Ottawa Folk Festival is a major Canadian folk festival. ... Elora on the Grand River Elora is a village in Ontario, Canada, with a population of 4,546 (according to the 2001 census). ...

Susan works six months each year as an editor of art catalogues for the National Gallery of Canada. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, PEN (Canada), the Writers' Trust, SOCAN, Access copyright, and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ... League of Canadian Poets, a non-profit arts service organization, is the national association of professional publishing and performing poets in Canada. ... Logo of International PEN International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere; to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as... The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada or SOCAN is the only nationwide performance rights organisation in Canada. ... Access © or Access Copyright is the name of the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly Cancopy). ... The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers or Friends) is a loose knit religious or spiritual movement founded in England in the 17th century by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. ...

Selected publications

• Pass this way again (with First Draft, 1983).
• Dark Galaxies. (Ouroboros, 1986).
• North/South (with First Draft). (Underwhich Editions, 1987).
• Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage (editor). (Balmuir Publishing, 1987).
• Wordmusic (audiotape, with First Draft, 1986).
• The Hummingbird Murders. (Quarry Press, 1992). ISBN 1-55082-048-6.
• Learning to Ride. (Quarry Press, 1994). ISBN 1-55082-104-0.
• Dangerous Times. (audiotape, with SugarBeat, 1996).
• Uncommon Prayer. (Quarry Press, 1997). ISBN 1-55082-196-2.
• Siolence: Poets on Women, Violence and Silence (editor). (Quarry Press, 1997).
• SugarBeat Music & Poetry (CD, SugarBeat 1998).
• Geode Music & Poetry, (CD, Geode, 2000). ISBN 0-9687191-0-4.
• Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, editor (Penumbra Press, Manotick, 2002). ISBN 1-894131-37-1.
• La Deriva del Pianeta/World Shift, translations into Italian by Ada Donati (Schifanoia Editore, 2003). ISBN 88-87882-30-4.
• Until the Light Bends (Black Moss Press, 2004). ISBN 0-88753-397-3.
• Until the Light Bends: Geode Music & Poetry, (CD, Pendas Productions, 2004). ISBN 0-920820-70-0.

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Selected anthologies

• Celebrating Canadian Women. Ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989).
• A Room at the Heart of Things. Ed. Elisabeth Harvor (Vehicule, 1999).
• Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport. Eds. Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden. (Human Kinetics, 1999).
• Line by Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. Ed. and with drawings by Heather Spears (Ekstasis Editions, 2002).
• Nth. Eds. Carolyn Creed, Fred Wah (Sage Hill Fall Poetry Colloquium, 2003).
• The Lunar Plexus. Aut. Penn Kemp (PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2002). ISBN 1-894715-01-2.
• Two Lips. Aut. Penn Kemp (PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2001). ISBN 0-920820-35-2.
• Re:Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation. Eds. Barbara Godard, Di Brandt (Black Moss Press, 2005). ISBN 0-88753-393-0.

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See also

• List of Canadian writers
• List of Canadian poets

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External links

• http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry
• http://www.poets.ca
• http://web.ncf.ca/smcmaster (home)