This Thursday, April 5 livewords presents, Liz Howard, Sachiko Murakami and Rob Winger at The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor – [map]

Doors at 7:30 p.m. - Readings from 8:00 p.m.

OPEN MIC for April 5 – “Closed” format – Your favourite Canadian poem in honour of National Poetry Month.

Reader bios:

Liz Howard, a native varietal of northern Ontario, has taken root in Toronto where she engages in cognition research and poetics. She is a member of the Influency Salon editorial group and co-cultivates the AvantGarden reading series. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, ditch, Matrix, and Misunderstandings Magazine. Skullambient, her first chapbook, was published by Ferno House Press in 2011. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the LitPop Award for poetry

Sachiko Murakami is the author of the poetry collections The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Rebuild (Talonbooks 2011). She has been a literary worker for numerous presses, journals, and organizations, and is Poetry Editor for Insomniac Press.

Rob Winger grew up in the nineteenth-century country south of Hamilton, and lives up on the other side of the city now, in the hills.  His first book, Muybridge’s Horse, lost some of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards, and his latest, The Chimney Stone, a book of free-verse ghazals, was written alongside his PhD thesis a few years back.  Rob’s currently at work on a new book of poems and a novel.

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