GARRY THOMAS MORSE is the author of Tranversals for Orpheus (Line Books 2006). He will be reading from his tetralogy The Chaos Suite. - (1) Minor Episodes : Signor Minor just landed the intellectual rights to all of us! Will his erotic love debase the entire world? Are women disappearing downtown or is it just a shaving advert not gone very smoothly? Can a billboard girl find true sensuousness? Can a man be executed via a common ingredient in toothpaste? Each serving includes bannock and side of latkes. - (2) Major Ruckus : When Carl Sagan's prudish rendering of an incomplete woman leads to a universal plot to fertilize our sterile planet, we meet a potluck medley of psychical detectives, interstellar agents, Ontario porn censors, and suspiciously employable sperm bank clones. What happens on Venus stays on Venus. - (3) Minor Expectations : Will Minor's estranged daughter Diminuenda enjoy her trip through time AND win her inheritance of thrillions? Warning: may contain historical obscenity and dead language. - (4) Rogue Cells Shakespearian Celebrity Terrorism. With 90% more Ayn Rand.

RITA WONG is a poet and activist who lives in Vancouver and teaches in the Critical + Cultural Studies program at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her first book of poetry Monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998) won the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award. A second poetry collection, forage is soon to be released from Nightwood Editions. She has published prose works and poems in Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury 2006). Companions and Horizons: an Anthology of SFU Poetry (West Coast Line 2005), Ribsauce: a CD/Anthology of Words by Women (Véhicule 2001), The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War (Three Squares 2003), and Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry (Arsenal Pulp 1999).