Lara Bozabalian - Alarm Clocks

Lara Bozabalian was the feature on the 26th of July at the Youth Poetry Slam. Her poetry and prose have been published in journals, magazines and newspapers, as well as in two literary anthologies. She is the author of five chapbooks, Exhale to December, The Morning Glories, New Dream and Free, and her first full length collection, The Cartographer’s Skin. She has featured regularly at reading series around Ontario, including the Art Bar, Harbourfront, Ryerson University, the Luminato New Waves Festival, Eden Mills Writers Festival and the Words Aloud Festival. As a member of the Toronto Poetry Slam Team, Lara represented Toronto at the American National Poetry Slam and the 2009 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She also competed at the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam and at the 2009 Women of the World Poetry Slam. As Head of English at a public high school, Lara founded and runs a spoken word festival for high school students across York Region, and is a founding member of Toronto Poetry Project, a collective dedicated to fostering social change and creative writing opportunities for youth. Check out more at bozabalian.wordpress.com

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