livewords June 7: Freeman, Humphrey, Lanthier and Wolff

livewords is back with a 4 x 4 evening on Thursday June 7 with Mike Freeman
Stephen Humphrey, Kateri Lanthier and Elana Wolff

A tiny, perfect and well-edited open mic will also on the bill.

The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor – [map]

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

A PWYC Donation is Requested.

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Reader Bios: 

Mike Freeman is a Toronto writer. His first full-length poetry book, Cigarette Salad, appeared in 2006. Since then his writing has appeared in many publications including Contemporary Verse 2, Carousel, Kiss Machine, The Hamilton Spectator, Misunderstandings, Rampike, The Windsor Review and others. He has been featured on Bravo! News, City TV’s Speaker’s Corner, and TVO’s Imprint as well as at live reading venues like The Eden Mills, and Elora Writers Festivals. He is the proud winner of The Art Bar Poetry Idol and his second book, Bones (reviewed here), was runner-up for Writer’s Digest’s Best Self-Published Poetry Book of 2008.
He also writes fiction and screenplays.

 

Stephen Humphrey is a writer, journalist, photographer and poet based in Toronto,
Canada. In 2004 he published the poetry collection Blue Angels with Seraphim Editions. In 2010 Stephen Humphrey received the Chalmers Fellowship grant from the Ontario Arts Council to research bees and pollinating insects to gather experience and knowledge for a literary project about bees. During his research Stephen was named Pollination Studies Writer-In-Residence for Guelph University’s School of Environmental Science.Stephen collaborates with composer and installation artist and activist Sarah Peebles on the project multimedia project Resonating Bodies. He also creates videos and 5-line tanka for the online multimedia poetry project, Odes To Solitary Bees. His poems, videos and images will appear this spring at the Comox Gallery on Vancouver Island in an exhibit titled Compound Eye. Recently he interviewed bee scientists across the world for a radio documentary on CBC Radio’s IDEAS, titled “Dancing In the Dark”, about bee intelligence, which will air June 12 on CBC Radio One.

 

Kateri Lanthierwas born in Toronto and has lived in St. Catharines,
Sudbury and Kingston. She has a BA and MA in English from the University of Toronto. She has worked as an editor in educational publishing and as a freelance writer, specializing in design, architecture and art. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines in Canada, the United States and England, and she has served on the editorial board of Descant. Her first book of poetry, Reporting from Night, was published by Iguana Books in 2011. Currently at work on a novel, Kateri Lanthier lives in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood with her husband and three children.

 

Elana Wolff’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and the UK. Her newest collection of poetry Startled Night was released this year from Guernica Editions. Her previous volume, You Speak to Me in Trees, (Guernica, 2006), was awarded the 2008 F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry. Elana divides her working time between writing, editing, and developing and facilitating therapeutic community art.

livewords May: Stevie Howell, Chris Hutchinson and Dilys Leman

livewords presents three significant poets on the third of May: Stevie Howell, Chris Hutchinson and Dilys Leman. Please join us for an intriguing evening at the newly renovated 2nd floor lounge at the Black Swan.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor[map]

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

A PWYC Donation is Requested.

Reader Bios:
Stevie Howell is a Toronto-based poet and critic whose writing has appeared in Arc, Descant, Globe and Mail, New Quarterly, Ploughshares, PRISM International, QWERTY, and Quill and Quire. She is an alumnus of Creative Writing at University of Toronto, the Banff Centre, and the Humber School for Writers. Stevie is an editor at Spacing magazine and also works for a mental health hospital. She is completing a degree in psychology and is currently developing two works of poetry: a chapbook called Royal and a full-length volume entitled Forest of Elders.

Chris Hutchinson is the author of Unfamiliar Weather (Muses’ Company, 2005) and Other People’s Lives (Brick Books, 2009). His work has been translated into Chinese and has appeared in numerous Canadian and US literary journals and anthologies. Born in Montreal and raised on Vancouver Island, he has pursued various livelihoods in Vancouver, Dawson City, Edmonton, Nelson, Kelowna, Phoenix and Brooklyn, cooking in restaurants or occasionally teaching creative writing at high schools, colleges and universities. He hasn’t been home in years.

Dilys Leman lives in Toronto. Her poetry and stories have appeared in Grain, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, and Prairie Fire. She is the great-great granddaughter of Dr. Augustus Jukes (1821-1905), Senior Surgeon of the North West Mounted Police during the 1885 Rebellion. Dr. Jukes was a member of the secret medical commission to re-examine the mental state of Louis Riel and is the subject of her first chapbook, The Lunacy Commission (Cactus Press, 2012).