When
he hit town in ’98, poet Kaie Kellough began a career of chronicling
Montreal’s vivid street life by toiling in a factory all day and
writing every night. He’s well-known as a stellar performer on
local stages, and he recently MCed the spoken word segment of this year’s
HOWL festival.
He focuses on arts and politics as the host of CKUT’s Soul Perspectives
every Tuesday night, and in August he launched Fire Escapes, the first
of a series of three chapbooks about downtown Montreal. “Ideally,
the three chapbooks will consist of one long continuous poem broken
up into parts,” Kellough says. “I also want to get into more
historical stuff, such as Montreal during the Jazz Age.”
He’s currently working as a guest editor of the African American
Review for a special issue on “young, forward-looking” black
Canadian writing, which will hit the stands in the spring of 2002. :
When
he hit town in ’98, poet Kaie Kellough began a career of chronicling
Montreal’s vivid street life by toiling in a factory all day and
writing every night. He’s well-known as a stellar performer on
local stages, and he recently MCed the spoken word segment of this year’s
HOWL festival.