Email RSVP to MWGEvents2022@gmail.com to get the link to join our next Book Chat!
Our virtual Book Chats usually take place on the second Wednesday evening of each month. The July Chat features poet Ron Romanowski, who will read (and maybe even sing!) from his repertoire of work and answer audience questions. To join us, please email our events email address MWGEvents2022@gmail.com for the Zoom instructions.
More about Ron:
Ron Romanowski’s poetry collection 10,000 Dancers Working Off Broadway is the Winnipeg poet and musician’s (Ron sings some of his poems) treatise and poetic proof of the links between dance, dancing, and poetry. Based on his New Festival Theory Ron provides a strikingly lyrical, and poetically logical eighty-five works that mark, waltz, jive, and hop from ancient civilizations through the Renaissance, W.B. Yeats, Post-modernism, and right into the famous socials of Winnipeg’s North End.
Dance is poetry. Poetry is dance. Follow Ron’s rhythms straight into a positive, prophetical, laudatory, philosophical, poignant, and hard-won comforting body of poetry that sets itself smack dab against the crises, trials and tribulations, and parochial warfare of our modern world. And as so often in the past perhaps a way forward can be found through the Arts. Everyone is welcome at the dance.
10,000 Dancers Working Off Broadway is Winnipeg writer Ron Romanowski’s 10th poetry collection. His first, Sweet Talking, was published in 2004. In 2019 his If 30,000 Strikers Marched Today was published in commemoration of the centennial of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and has been read on national CBC Radio. Recently he won the Gimli Icelandic Festival and the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group poetry contests. His work continues to express the vulnerability of the natural world and hope for our planet in a challenging, entertaining, and often humorous manner.
