Introducing our 2012 Café Poet!
From July to December 2011, Australian Slam Poetry Champion Luka Lesson was our first ever Café Poet in residence. We had so much fun running the program that we have decided to do it again this year.
We are very pleased to introduce our 2012 Café Poet, Alia Gabres. Alia's residency will be launched at City Library on Tuesday 27 March at 6pm, and followed by a series of workshops. Stay tuned for more details.
About Alia Gabres
What is the Café Poet program?
About Alia Gabres
Alia Gabres is a co-director of The Centre for Poetics and Justice, a not-for-profit organisation focused on using poetry as a form of literary education, self expression and social engagement for marginalised peoples. She was recently a part of the Global Poetics Tour 2011 where she performed alongside international wordsmiths of the like of Shane Koyzcan, Ken Arkind, Mahogany Brown and Jive Poetic. She concluded a whirlwind year by sharing the stage with acclaimed Def Jam poet Amir Sulaiman.
Throughout 2011, Alia was a curator of the spoken word explorations series ‘Tell it Like it is’ at the Footscray Arts Centre. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry entitled This Residue of Light: Broken openings, poetry and the like. She hopes to continue finding avenues to link people’s real experiences through poetry while savouring the human elements in humanity.
Alia will be touring in February with Luka Lesson and Joel McKerrow as part of the Please Resist Me Poetry Slam Tour, presented by The Centre for Poetics and Justice. The tour is launched in Melbourne on Sunday 19 February.
Hear and watch Alia perform: http://bit.ly/xLNWL9 and http://bit.ly/xO2Qn9
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What is the Café Poet Program?
The Café Poet Program was established in 2009 by Australian Poetry. It aims to promote poetry while strengthening community relationships. So far this nationwide program has provided more than fifty poets with an opportunity to develop their writing in a supportive environment.
Australian Poetry, a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre and NSW Poets Union, is based at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.
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