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A collaborative community art event Saturday at SB Contemporary Art will bring together artists with a number of different relationships to the University of Windsor.

“We’re Working On It,” presented in conjunction with Mayworks, will feature artists Elaine Carr, Susan Gold Smith, Mike Marcon, Mary Ann Mulhern, Thomas Provost and A.G. Smith. The public is invited to join in, view and participate throughout the day—the artists are writing, drawing, mapping, thinking and discussing within the context of the region.

Maybe it took a creative mind. Creative writing major Laryssa Brooks was one of a minority of entrants to get all the answers right in yesterday’s DailyNews contest—and her name was the only one drawn from a hat to choose the winner.

To the victor will go the spoils: a prize package of a mini padfolio, a small notebook, a keychain, a pen and a beautiful desktop clock, all bearing the UWindsor logo.

Windsor’s poet laureate Marty Gervais will have words with UWindsor writer-in-residence Phil Hall on Thursday, but don’t worry—it’s all in the interests of art.

Both graduates of the University of Windsor, Gervais (MA 1972) and Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) will discuss the latter’s work as part of the “Having Words” series of author talks hosted by the Arts Council Windsor and Region. The series promotes informal discussion about the craft of writing, exploring the challenges and joys related to poetry; events are free and open to the public.

A free public reading of his work will introduce writer-in-residence Phil Hall to the campus community, Thursday, March 7, at 2:30 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium’s Salon A.

Hall, a UWindsor alumnus (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978), has begun a one-month appointment in the English department. Killdeer, a book of poems and essays, won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, an Alcuin Design Award, and was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize.