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Calgary Spoken Word Festival
Kirk Miles (Calgary)

Kirk Miles

His poems have been produced on CBC’s Alberta Anthology and his poetry and short stories have been published by several journals in western Canada. A founding member of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre and as a playwright he has as had several plays professionally produced and has earned recognition for his work including a playwriting award from Alberta Culture for co-writing the critically acclaimed Juggler on a Drum. A book of poetry entitled The Last Six Minutes of Elvis was published by Touchwood Press in 2002. In the fall of 2007 Bravo aired a half hour special on his life as a poet, playwright and clown. His most recent book, of ash of brick of water, was released in March 2010 by Plan-B House publishing. In June of 2009 Kirk Miles won the Alberta Screenwriters Award for a screenplay entitled Shadow Maker. Kirk is accompanied by Cenneth Sinclair an accomplished blues guitar player.

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