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Jodey Castricano

Photography by Tim Swanky and Design by Margo Yacheshyn.

Oral Histories

  • Out of Bounds: An Oral History.

    Karis Shearer talks with poet-professor Jodey Castricano about “Out of Bounds,” their creative work that recalls their experience in Oakalla and Maple Ridge prisons where they were serving for civil disobedience for blocking logging roads in Sulphur Pass in 1989.

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  • Jodey Castricano at their desk

    At What Point Did This All Begin?

    Jodey Castricano talks with Karis Shearer about their work as a student at SFU transcribing the “Duende, Muse, and Angel” session tape from the 1963 Poetry Conference. They read aloud a 1987 letter Jodey and Peggy Gersbrecht sent to Warren Tallman at SUNY Buffalo and talk about the spectral return of the archive.

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Bibliography

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Pauline Butling

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Oral History

On Sharon Thesen’s Reading at the Bowerings’

On Sharon Thesen’s Reading at the Bowerings’

Citation: Bowering, George and Jean Baird. “On Sharon Thesen’s Reading at the Bowerings’” By Karis Shearer. 18 May, 2023. The SoundBox Collection. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca

Karis Shearer talks with George Bowering with contributions from Jean Baird about the Sharon Thesen’s reading and launch of Artemis Hates Romance at George and Angela Bowerings’ house in the early 1980s. Their conversation touches on other readings and literary events at the Bowerings’, a social hub for writers living in and visiting Vancouver.

A semi-transparent cassette tape. The label, in handwriting reads, "Sharon Thesen's Reading at Bowerings."
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Bowering Party Readings Aug 16, 1986

The tape consists of an amateur home recording of a private reading among poets and friends hosted by George and Angela Bowering on August 16, 1986. Guest readers include Sharon Thesen and Robin Blaser. Other poets are unconfirmed.

“Bowering Party Reading (incomplete)” from George Bowering fonds.
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Oral History

Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”

Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”

Baird, Jean and George Bowering. “The Story of the Baseball Story.” Interview by Karis Shearer. 7 April, 2023. The SoundBox Collection. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca

Collector and bibliographer Jean Baird tells Karis Shearer the story of the baseball that she donated to the Baird-Bowering fonds at UBC Okanagan Special Collections and Archives.

Jean Baird smiles while holding a California League Official Ball.
A hand holds a California League Official Ball. An out-of-focus George Bowering smiles in the background.