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| The Time Mechanix series arose out of a contractual obligation with a realtor to use Robson Central for readings. In return his company donated 5000$ annually to KSW, an arrangement brokered by the poet Mari-Lou Rowley. The school was in dire need; a key supporter had just cut off our operational funding. The title, of course, is thick with Spicer's ghost which was being channeled just prior to the move to the Hamilton Street address. After the deal with the realtor ended, Time Mechanix continued at the Hamilton St space. The whole series included, in chronological order: Michael Barnholden on Ed Dorn, Peter Quartermain on Basil Bunting, Robin Laba on Mina Loy, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk on Gertrude Stein, Greg Placonouris on Charles Watts, Lisa Robertson on Edith Sitwell, Reg Johanson on Jack Spicer, Roy Miki on Roy Kiyooka, Meredith Quartermain on Stevie Smith, Robert Manery on Paul Celan, Ralph Maud on Charles Olson, Wayde Compton on Isaac Dickson and Mifflin Ishtar Gibbs, Keegan Doyle on Cid Corman, and Louis Cabri on Earle Birney. Ted Byrne, who conceived the series, wanted to call it "The Dead Poets Society" but no one would let him.
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Biblio
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| Compton reads his paper “Black Voice and Stately Airs”, on the writers and abolitionists Isaac Dickson (1872 – 1889) and Mifflin Ishtar Gibbs (1823 – 1915). |
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