photo : Natasha Sawh

KAIE KELLOUGH

Kaie Kellough is a Montréal writer (via Calgary) who has been an active member of the literary community since his arrival in 1998. He has published in Filling Station, Matrix, Kola, Free Fall, has written for radio (CBC, CKUT), newspaper (Globe and Mail, Montréal Gazette), and diverse periodicals (among them Canadian Dimension and Rabble). In 2001 he was awarded a Canada Council writing grant to work on a book of poems set in Montréal. Lettricity is that book. Kaie is a member of the Québec Writers' Federation (QWF). He has been invited to read his work in Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, New York, and Thunder Bay, while reading regularly in Montréal. He was a featured artist in CBC's 2003 Canada Reads series, to which he contributed a written work based on the Hubert Aquin novel Prochain épisode. For the past three years, Kaie has written, researched, produced, and hosted a CKUT community radio show. Kaie has organized numerous readings that have featured other local (and out-of-town) writers. He is an active member of Montréal-based live organic improvider Kalmunity Vibe Collective and is co-editor of Talking Book.

watch Kaie perform on CBC's Zed-TV.

Read the Hour cover story.

"Live, Kellough is rhythm personified." -- Montréal Review of Books mRb

Kaie reports back from the Toronto's Annual International Dub Poetry Festival as poet in residence at the festival.