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Spaz (Sean Zitello) : [Action Poetry performance video]

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)

Sheri-D Wilson studio sessions

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

Sheri-D Wilson

  • Sin city
  • Closet New Yorker
  • Brainwash

Sheri-D Wilson : [Action Poetry performance video]

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)

Shawna Dempsey : [Action Poetry performance video]

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)

Queen Elizabeth High School, Shawna, Clifton, etc. : [Nat Christie Poetry Day video recording]

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).

Proposals and budgets relating to Action Poetry

Subseries consists of files on the planning and administration of Action Poetry '94 and the Nat Christie Poetry Day. They include minutes of meetings held with representatives from various Banff Centre departments (including George Ross, Sara Diamond, Robert Rosen, Isobel Rolston, and Kevin Elliot), correspondence with Carol Phillips (of the Centre for the Arts), and material on the Action Poetry budget and fundraising.

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