Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual

Contributors

357 Contributors d’bi.young.anitafrika born in kingston jamaica’s whitfield town and birthed from the womb of dub by anita (poets in unity) stewart who raised her child at orality’s hub, d’bi.young’s a storyteller who takes literature live, she’s recorded eight dub disks she’s actor, dubpoet, and teacher, a skilled monodramatist she won two doras for the first play in her sankofa trilogy, blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!, plays that speak to her village globally. she played staceyann in da kink in my hair, and founded anitafrika! dub theatre, then living in cape town and canada alternately she established yemoya international residencies. get breaking news of her latest projects from her website dbi333.com (S. G.) Emily Blacker holds an MA from the Department of English at the University of Victoria and teaches in Communications Studies at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. Her current research focuses on theories of 358 Contributors ethnography. Other research interests include postcolonial studies, indigenous literatures, and strategies of literary decolonization. Kimberly M. Blaeser, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literature. Her publications include three books of poetry: Trailing You, winner of the first book award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas; Absentee Indians and Other Poems; and Apprenticed to Justice. Her scholarly study, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, was the first Native-authored book-length study of an indigenous author. Of Anishinaabe ancestry and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe who grew up on the White Earth Reservation , Blaeser is also the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. T. L. (Tom) Burton, Founding Director of the Chaucer Studio, teaches English at the University of Adelaide, Australia, specializing in medieval English literature and the history of the language. He has taken part in many audio recordings for the Chaucer Studio and is a frequent speaker and reader of poems to literary societies, writing groups, branches of the University of the Third Age, and on radio. He is the author of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide, and, in collaboration with K. K. Ruthven, is preparing a critical edition of The Complete Poems of William Barnes (3 volumes) for Oxford University Press. George Elliott Clarke From his stage in English, U of T, Pratt Professor George Elliott Clarke, OC, performs multiple roles right excellently as poet, novelist, dramatist, critic, and editor of anthologies, excavating stories of Black Canuck communities. In 2001 for Execution Poems he gleaned the coveted GG, just one of ten books, to date, of poetry; his Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature was a field-founding book his LLDs & DLetts honour; and for both his art and scholarship he won a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship. Today, much in demand, the stylin’ GEC brings da noise at home as well as globally. (Note composed after performance style of GEC by current editor Susan G.) Contributors 359 Cara DeHaan was, until 2009, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, exploring the decolonizing potential of contemporary English Canadian literature. She has published an essay on the poetry of Marilyn Dumont in Studies in Canadian Literature. Cara left the doctoral program to devote her energy to family and community commitments. Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, musician, and oral sound artist. Since 1970 he has toured, solo and ensemble, across the Americas and Europe, performing at international literary and music festivals; in concert halls,galleries, theatres, clubs, universities, and high schools; and on radio, television, and film. He was a member of the poetry performance group The Four Horsemen , and is in the free-improvisation trio CCMC and the Canada–France poetry-music group Quintet à Bras. His sixth and most recent book is the novel Several Women Dancing; his fifth and most recent solo recording is the CD Oralizations. Naomi Foyle was born in London, England, grew up in Saskatchewan, and currently lives in Brighton, UK. Her doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Wales examined the topic of the warrior woman and narrative verse. She has published two poetry collections and a ballad pamphlet with Waterloo Press: The Night Pavilion, an Autumn 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommendation; The World Cup (2010); and Grace...