Southwestern Ontario Spoken Word Festival (April 2010) Feature Poet C.R. Avery began playing music professionally at the age of 17 when he toured from the nation’s capitol to the far interior of Vancouver Island. Fifteen albums and seven operas later smoke stack lightening is the eternal horizon.   In the past four years, Avery [...]

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Southwestern Ontario Spoken Word Festival (April 2010) Feature Poet Andrea Thompson has performed her work across North America, and is the host of season two of the television series, Heart of a Poet. Her CD, One, was nominated for aCanadian Urban Music Award. Andrea’s writing has been included in magazines, literary journals and anthologies across Canada. [...]

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