Sheri-D Wilson

Sheri-D Wilson is a Canadian poet and playwright.[1]

Sheri-D Wilson has written seven (7) collections of poetry; her most recent, Autopsy of a Turvy World (2008, Frontenac House), was launched in April 2008. Her last collection, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit award. She has 2 Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom), and 4 award-winning VideoPoems: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004), and The Panty Portal (2008), all produced for BravoFACT.

Other Awards Include: Global TV's Woman of Vision Award (2006), SpoCan Award (2005), Bumbershoot Heavyweight Title for Poetry USA (2003), Gold Award at the Houston Film Festival (2003), Three ACE awards (2003), AMPIA (2003, for best short or vignette), CBC Face-off (2002).

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In the beat tradition, in 1989 she studied at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado.

Wilson founded the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival in 2003 , produced the 2008 National Slam, and founded/organized SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network, 2007, 2005). She is the Program Director of the Spoken Word Program at Banff Centre.[2]

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  1. ^ 100 Sheri-D Wilson profile
  2. ^ Calgary Spoken Word Festival

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