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Writer-in-Residence at St. John's Kilmarnock School |
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Watch for Catherine's Danforth Review article about her creativity consultant work with businesses and organizations |
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Attend Catherine's workshop Words@work: Metaphor as Problem Solver at University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto |
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Watch for Catherine's ‘Centred Out' feature in a 2007 issue of Hamilton's Literary Journal Hammered Out |
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Read Catherine's interview on Poetry Coaching in Poet's Market 2007 |
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Visit Discovery Landing and see Catherine's ‘word' contributions to Burlington's new and exciting Waterfront Project
(Haley Sharpe Design Limited), United Kingdom. Calendars with Catherine's words are available for purchase. |
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Catherine has been appointed Vice President of Bookmark Canada . Founded by Miranda Hill, Bookmark Canada is a non-profit organization that seeks to mark the real places that serve as the settings for imagined stories, taking the text from the page and placing it in actual geography, marking places where the real and imagined landscapes merge. Current advisors to the project include: Molly Peacock, Lawrence Hill, Tina Srebotnjak, Denis Deneau, Richard Bachman and Elana Rabinovitch. |
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Read Catherine's poem The Night Brodsky Died in LRC (May, 2006) |
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Read Catherine's three poems in the Fall 2006 issue of Parameter Magazine ( UK ) |
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Creativity
Consultant for businesses and organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline. |
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Workshops:
- Words@work: Metaphor as Problem-Solver
- Conflict@work: Six Steps to Win/Win
- Writing@work: Release Your Inner Writer
- Leadership&Storytelling@work
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Guest Poet at the Canadian Music Competition's annual concert (Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts). |
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Read Catherine's Descant contribution – It Chooses You – reflections on Barbara Gowdy – Catherine's first creative writing teacher. |
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Listen to Catherine reading her poems at Campfire Ditties |
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Read Catherine's Writer's Friendship contribution at Perhihelion |
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Transforming
Problems through Metaphor - an
interview |
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On
CBC's Sounds
Like Canada Shelagh Rogers read a letter written by Catherine
on the subject of Step Mothers. Shelagh also commented how
much she liked Catherine's poem "Stepping Stones"
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Published on the Sounds Like Canada website ) |
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Catherine
was interviewed on television - Cogeco's program Main Street
- as part of their One-on-One series with Lana Richardson.
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Catherine
was one of three judges
(Rachel Zolf, Simon Ortiz) for the 5th annual poetry prize Hart House
Review on behalf of the Hart House Literary and Library Committee,
U of T. |
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Catherine helped judge the 1st Annual Art and Essay Contest launched
by the Canadian Mental Health Association Halton Branch and the
Acts of Kindness Network. |
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Catherine's
Radio interview with James O'Hearn is available at http://www.engagingtheword.net/catheringraham.mp3 |
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Catherine
was a Nominee Readers at the The
Halton Women of the Year event at the Glen Abbey Golf Club,
Oakville. |
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If
you are from the Hamilton area, you will find Catherine's Cultural
Fish Out of Water contribution in the March/April issue of Artsbeat. |
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Read
Catherine's poem Pissenlit at www.leafpress.ca
and The Water Draws (www.niagarapoetry.ca) |
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Read
a review of Pupa in The
Toronto Star |
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Read Catherine's
interview on The
Danforth Review with Erin Gouthro. |
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Catherine is a recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Writer's
Reserve Grant (publisher-recommender: Arc:
Canada's National Poetry Magazine). |
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Catherine's
fascination with dolls has worked its way, creatively, into a growing
sequence of doll poems. These doll poems are published in her first
poetry book, Pupa (Insomniac
Press). Incidentally, pupa means doll in Latin.
Read Doll-Soul
at www.danforthreview.com
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Catherine
was commissioned to write four poems for The
Burlington Art Centre's WATER PROJECT |
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To
read Catherine's Water poems please click below:
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Donna
Ibing / Niagara II
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Rick
Pottruff / Slowly I Turned |
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Helen
Sovereign / Water for Life |
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Nancy
Rahija / Shipping Views |
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Read
Catherine's Poets
Against the War poem: Poem Found While Listening to a Little
Baghdad Girl, Feb 16 2003, on CBC's Sun Day or at Artists4Peace |
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