Sheri-D Wilson
Poet, performer, film-maker, educator, producer and activist, Sheri-D Wilson has six collections of poetry; her most recent, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the ReLit award. She has two Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom) and four award-winning VideoPoems: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004), and The Panty Portal (2008), all produced for BravoFACT. Her other Awards Include: Global TV’s Woman of Vision Award (2006), SpoCan Award (2005), Bumbershoot Heavyweight Title for Poetry USA (2003), Gold Award at the Houston Film Festival (2003), Three ACE awards (2003), AMPIA (2003, for best short or vignette), CBC Face-off (2002)
Of the beat tradition, in 1989 Sheri-D studied at Naropa University’s jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado. Since founding the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival in 2003, Sheri-D has worked at quantum velocities to present one of the most respected Spoken Word Festivals in Canada. Driven by the passion to connect people, voices and ideas she founded/organized SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network, 2007, 2005) and is Program Director of the 2008 Spoken Word Program at Banff Centre.
Works
Re:Zoom |
Autopsy of a Turvy World |
