- Stuart Ross is a poet, fictioneer, editor, and writing
instructor who has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the
mid-1970s. He sold 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and
fiction
chapbooks in the streets of Toronto during the ’80s. Stuart is
co-founder,
with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, and has
edited
the literary magazines: Mondo
Hunkamooga, Who Torched Rancho Diablo?,
Dwarf
Puppets on Parade and Peter
O’Toole. His latest project is Syd
&
Shirley
Poetry Magazine.
Stuart has given readings at hundreds of venues in Canada, the U.S.,
England, and Nicaragua, and has appeared at the Ottawa International
Writers’ Festival, Banff-Calgary WordFest, Ashkenaz Festival of Yiddish
Culture, MayWorks, Words in Whitby, Vancouver Jewish Book Fair, and
Toronto Mini-Festival of Sound Poetry.
His work has appeared in scores of journals here and in the U.S.,
including Harper’s, This Magazine,
sub-Terrain, Geist, Rampike, Taddle
Creek, WHAT!, Industrial Sabotage, Perpetual Motion Machine, Fell
Swoop,
Taddle Creek, and Bomb Threat
Checklist.
Stuart teaches a poetry class for adults at Centauri Summer Arts
Retreat
and a writing workshop for teens at Centauri Summer Arts Camp. He has
also
taught poetry-writing in elementary schools and high-schools, and has
led
his Poetry Boot Camps across Ontario and elsewhere. Stuart was the 2002
Writer in Residence for the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region and the
2003
Poet in Residence for the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival. He is
the Fiction and Poetry Editor for This
Magazine.
-
- Awards
- Finalist, Trillium Book Award, 2000 for Farmer Gloomy's New
Hybrid
-
- Selected Publications
Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems
New & Selected
(ECW, 2003)
ISBN 1-55022-574-X.
Razovsky at Peace (ECW
Press, 2001)
ISBN 1-55022-473-5.
Farmer Gloomy's
New Hybrid
(ECW Press, 1999)
ISBN 1-55022-394-1.
Henry Kafka and Other Stories
(The Mercury Press, 1997)
ISBN 1-55128-050-7.
The Inspiration Cha-Cha
(ECW Press, 1996)
ISBN1-55022-293-7.
The Mud Game
(w/ Gary
Barwin)
(The Mercury Press, 1995)
ISBN 1-55128-027-2.
The Pig Sleeps (w/ Mark
Laba)
(Contra Mundo Books, 1993)
ISBN 1-895327-10-5.
-
- Selected Anthologies
- Surreal Estate: 13 Canadian
Poets Under the Influence
(The Mercury Press, 2004)
ISBN 1-55128-109-0.
My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems
for George W. Bush (Proper Tales Pres, 2004)
ISBN 0-920467-44-X.
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- Books in Print
Ross, Stuart
Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems
New & Selected (ECW, 2003) ISBN 1-55022-574-X.
Razovsky at Peace (ECW
Press, 2001) ISBN 1-55022-473-5.
Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid
(ECW Press, 1999) ISBN 1-55022-394-1.
Henry Kafka and Other Stories
(The Mercury Press, 1997) ISBN 1-55128-050-7.
The Inspiration Cha-Cha
(ECW Press, 1996) ISBN1-55022-293-7.
The
Mud Game (w/ Gary Barwin) (The Mercury Press, 1995) ISBN
1-55128-027-2.
The Pig Sleeps (w/ Mark Laba) (Contra Mundo Books, 1993) ISBN
1-895327-10-5.
- Stuart Ross,
e-mail: stu_ross@sympatico.ca
http://www.hunkamooga.com
http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/poetry_with_a_twist.shtml
Poet in the School
(Toronto)
stu_ross@sympatico.ca
Phone: 416-588-7277
STUART ROSS has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the
mid-1970s, and has been visiting classrooms since the 1980s, giving
readings, conducting workshops, and doing talks on his life as a
writer. For well over a decade, he has conducted workshops for teens at
many schools in Ontario, as well as through the Ottawa International
Writers' Festival and the Banff-Calgary WordFest. He leads a two-week
poetry workshop for teens at Centauri Summer Arts Camp.
Stuart has been a keynote speaker at the Toronto Public Library's Young
Voices Writers Conference; On the Road: Halton Senior Writers'
Symposium; and the Ontario Library Association's Big Ideas, Now! Teen
Services Conference. He featured at the Youth Scream Open Mike and was
a guest host at the Maria A. Shchuka Library's Teen Open Mike Night.
Stuart is the author of several books of poetry, and countless
chapbooks, leaflets, postcards, and broadsides. His most recent titles
are the acclaimed Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New &Selected (ECW
Press, 2003) and Razovsky at Peace (ECW, 2001). His collection Farmer
Gloomy's New Hybrid (ECW, 1999) was shortlisted for the 2000 Trillium
Book Award. Stuart is also the editor of the anthologies Surreal
Estate: 13 Canadian Poets Under the Influence (The Mercury Press, 2004)
and My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush (Proper Tales
Press, 2004). Stuart is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto
Small Press Book Fair.
Stuart has given readings at hundreds of venues in Canada, the U.S.,
England, and Nicaragua, and has appeared at the Ottawa International
Writers' Festival, Banff-Calgary WordFest, Ashkenaz Festival of Yiddish
Culture, MayWorks, Words in Whitby, Vancouver Jewish Book Fair, and
Toronto Mini-Festival of Sound Poetry.
Stuart was the 2002 Writer in Residence for the Writers' Circle of
Durham Region and the 2003 Poet in Residence for the Ottawa
International Writers' Festival. For 25 years he has run his own small
literary press, Proper Tales. He is the Fiction and Poetry Editor for
This Magazine.
Stuart's online home is http://www.hunkamooga.com
Grade Levels: 7-12
Fees: standard
Classroom Approach:
I am flexible and happy to adapt
my visits to teachers'/librarians' needs. I offer lively workshops
where the students' focus is on producing new work with a variety of
different approaches; I give readings of my work; I talk about my life
as a writer, and am always happy to round these off with a Q&A
session. I can also do a mixture of any of the above. I incorporate a
sort of "small press show & tell" into many of my presentations,
opening students up to the possibilities of publishing their own
literary magazines and chapbooks.
