85:"The Alberta Beatnik (Mark Kozub) and Thomas Trofimuk are looking to host & coordinate a monthly ‘Open Stage’ event down Whyte Avenue, starting in June or July. (The goal is simple: get new members.) If anyone has a lead on a funky Whyte Avenue venue that might need the extra business (and might even pay the Stroll a small fee to boost it), call Mark Kozub at … ASAP"
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During the May 4th, 2000 Stroll of Poets board meeting, in keeping with the expansion mandate, three new "Subsidiary Roles" were created, Media
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The new reading series, Poetry
Tuesdays ran through February, March, and April 2000. The Backroom Vodka Bar was used as the venue of choice in two of those three months. The ad of the March series ran, “Beware the Odes of March, hosted by Phil, the Cowboy Poet with
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On March 23, 2002, Mark, Thomas and Gordon left the Board and the
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The Raving Poets created a festival, The Roar, which ran for two years, 2006 and 2007, between the demise of the Stroll of Poets “stroll” and the advent of the
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prove, it was not a new concept. What set the Raving Poets apart was the incredible variety of musical and poetic styles performed. From the wordsmiths, everything from
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and nature poetry, with generous doses of politics, confessionals and rants. The musicians matched these forms with equally eclectic styles, from
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