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Item is a video recording of the Nat Christie Poetry Day workshops run by Action Poetry participants at Calgary schools. It includes workshops at Queen Elizabeth High School (with Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan, Clifton Joseph, and Adeena Karasick), and at the Plains Indians Cultural Survival School (with Wendy Berner).

Item is a video recording of Shawna Dempsey’s performances (created in collaboration with Lorri Millan) at Action Poetry ’94.Performances include:

1. [I want you to want me] (3:40)
2. [In 1968 in Scarborough] (2:53)
3. [When I bumped my trike against your trike] (5:29)
4. [Definitions] (9:43)
5. [It had been said of all mad women] (6:25)

Item is a video recording of Sheri-D Wilson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

1. Preamble (1:20)
2. Taboo x 2 (8:58)
3. Salmon suicide note (4:54)
4. On being a poet (0:11)
5. [He was a hot head] (2:49)
6. Vulva holiday [cyber sex] (8:38)
7. Sin City (4:12)
8. Ovo vie vie perro (3:32)

Item is an audio recording of performances from Action Poetry '94 by Sheri-D Wilson.

Sheri-D Wilson

• Sin city
• Closet New Yorker
• Brainwash

Item is a video recording of Sean Zitello's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

1. Ode to Jessie (4:35)
2. For Fred (1:31)
3. [Ideas Scratch] (3:22)
4. [Yet another killer] (1:16)
5. [The foibles of former strangers…] (2:14)
6. [Pissing on the Blarney Stone] (2:00)
7. Poem grenades over Poland (6:54)
8. Ralphie’s dilemma (1:44)
9. [In dreams I have no…] (2:33)
10. [This rumpled heart…] (1:22)
11. Small town (2:16)
12. [Chatter chip chompers] (0:45)
13. [Hello there old wooden friend] (0:46)
14. Excerpts from a conversation in western Idaho (3:50)
15. [Follow me deep inside a story…] (6:38)
16. [Let’s get a little psychological] (0.50)
17. [That little person inside your head] (2:20)
18. After Hours Joint (1:25)
19. Tissue (4:50)
20. Edgy (1:44)
21. Where do the mountains live? (1:37)

Item is a video recording of Stephen Humphrey and Murdoch Burnett's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

Stephen Humphrey

1. [Writing on Paper] (0:40)
2. Oh Canada, go Canada (5:11)
3. Post Modern thing to do (0:47)
4. Salesman Blues (5:02)
5. Neutron City (6:08)

Murdoch Burnett

1. I will love in June (4:14)

Item is a video recording of Terry Crane's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

1. [You don’t have to talk anymore] (0:38)
2. [Ooligans are small oily fish] (0:32)
3. My smoking harbour pistol tells no lines (1:12)
4. [Men must stop the hell we cause women] (1:30)
5. A letter from the critters of the planet (1:12)
6. Love poem no. 6,846 (0:10)
7. Love poem no. 9,829 (1:51)
8. They sing to me fucking siren songs in the saliva rain (1:13)
9. [Let God judge us by the length of our neckties] (0:33)
10. Symptomatic love poems no. 87 (0:13)
11. Love poem no. 8,246 (1:09)
12. Kids today (0:06)
13. Boy talk (0:13)
14. Love poem no. 6,826 (0:32)
15. [Sad world] (1:10)
16. Love poem no. 1 (0:18)
17. [I read about two dozen embryos] (0:23)
18. Slick politics (0:37)
19. [Shit your bullets] (1:04)
20. [OK he say] (1:15)
21. Dizzy come to visit (6:53)
22. Song: New York flat top (1:17)
23. Song: Mother Night (6:19)
24. Song: Scream for Rodney King (1:42)
25. Song: Come on and change, blues (4:53)

Item is a video recording of Terry Crane's performances at Action Poetry ’94, conducting a human orchestra of other Action Poetry participants (including Tim Lander, Shawna Dempsey, Tracie Morris, Don Davidson, Stephen Humphrey, Joseph Clifton, Lori Weidenhammer, and Sheri-D Wilson, among others). Performances include:

1. [With orchestra] (3:34)
2. [With orchestra] (2:38)
3. [With orchestra] (2:00)

Item is a video recording of Tim Lander's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:
1.[Who will tell secrets] (1:11)

2. [At this edge and beyond us] (0:50)
3. [Among the great injustices] (1:24)
4. Poems from the heart (7:40)
5. Mea Culpa (11:31)
6. [I open to the darkness of your breath] (0:28)
7. [You fill my space] (0:22)
8. [You fill my space] (0:21)
9. [The wind has blown about my body] (0:26)
10. [And Ronnie Walker] (4:58)
11. [The crazy gods] (10:29)
12. Evidence (3:58)