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Eva Waldauf
 Eva
Waldauf was born in Toronto, Ontario. In
ninth grade she found her1st
love, art. She wanted to be a painter/artist.
In 1990 she graduated from the Ontario College of Art in the Experimental Art
Department. Eva had followed her dream. In 1993 she
moved to Vancouver, BC with her
husband, where she continued to create art and
exhibit. She attended Simon Fraser University, taking
Arts and Culture Studies, and graduated with a BA in
1998. During her last year of University Eva
wrote her first poem. Since
then she has written over 160 poems and has read at many literary events in
Greater Vancouver including Banyen Book’s Speakeasy,
The First Tuesdays Assembly of Poets at Chapters,
Twisted Poets Literary Salon, The
Mutanabbi St. Memorial at Upstart Crow Books,
AfricaDey, and the Vancouver
Poetry Slam.
An
active member of the community Eva continues to exhibit her visual art and her
poetry. In 2006 Eva was a part of Pandora's Collective's
Summer Dream Reading Festival, reading
with the First Tuesdays Assembly of Poets. The
World Poetry Café Radio interviewed her in 2007 and in
2008 they featured her writing at the World Poetry Peace
Project. In 2008 Eva's poetry was featured at
the Poets and Painters Show hosted by The South
Delta Artists Guild. For upcoming exhibits visit
www.energygallery.com
and
www.myspace.com/heartsandpoetry.
Contact:
evawaldauf@yahoo.ca,
www.myspace.com/heartsandpoetry
Selected Poem:
Rocks
Men are
just like rocks
I keep crashing into
I run to them openhearted
And smash into their barriers
The walls around their hearts
I can only get so close
Then the
walls sneak up
And so it
ends
All over
again
With bruises in the
morning
And a
twist in my heart
Eva Waldauf – July 2006
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