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Wilde about Sappho is a celebration of gay and lesbian writing in Ottawa.
Details are as follows:

sponsored by the LAMBDA Foundation
moderated by Marion Dewar
featuring Ottawa writers:
   Andrew Grimes Griffen
   Blaine Marchand
   Ellen Symons
   and singer/songwriter Marlene MacDonald
with participation by R.U.R.A.L.
(Radical United Rural Amazon Lesbians)

National Library of Canada auditorium
395 Wellington St.
Tuesday November 3, 8:00pm
$8.00 donations ($5.00 - low income)

Tickets available at Ottawa Women's Bookstore and After Stonewall.

Andrew Grimes Griffin's work has appeared in the anthologies
Loving in Fear; The New Poets of Prince Edward Island; and A
Carload of Poets as well as in GRIND Poetry Magazine and
Islandside Magazine.  He wrote and performed in Sodem etc. and
contributed to the Gay and Lesbian Ottawa Writers' production
Reading in Bed.  He runs Gay and Lesbian Ottawa Writers (GLOW)
and was the arts columnist for the Hill Times.

Blaine Marchand's third book of poetry A Garden Enclosed won the
Archibald Lampman Award.  His work has appeared in Christopher
Street and Lubricite.  He has written a novel entitled African 
Journey.  He is the president of the League of Canadian Poets.

Ellen Symons' work is in the anthology Getting Wet:Tales of
Lesbian Seductions as well as in Carleton Arts Review; Bywords;
and Dis-ease.  She writes for GO-INFO and is a member of In
Harmony.

Marlene MacDonald is a singer/songwriter who has performed at the
Great Canadian Theatre Company; Rasputin's; and Zaphods.

R.U.R.A.L. (Radical United Rural Amazon Lesbians) is an Arnprior
collective which is editing an anthology of writing about the
experiences of lesbians who have lived in the country.
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