It’s a special livewords night, Thursday October 8th!

livewords is pleased to welcome Chicago poets, Richard Huttel and Christine Aument; and Toronto poets: Lillian Necakov, Jeff Latosik and Phoebe Tsang; plus our special guest Stuart Ross.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, October 8th at SAGE WEST – 924 College Street West (just east of Dovercourt) — MAP

We will start sharp at 8 PM! – Yes really!

Reader Bios:

Christine Aument was born and raised in the Chicago area.  A class on finding one’s dream spurred her to pursue writing.  Her work has appeared in Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine (The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine), Prairie Light Review:  In Medias Res (College of DuPage), as well as several publications of the Bloomingdale (IL) Writer’s Workshop.  Her poem, “Cold Comfort”, took 25^th place in Writer’s Digest magazine’s Fourth Annual Poetry Contest.  “My poetry correspondence with Richard Huttel keeps me writing when life threatens to take over.”

Chicagoan RICHARD HUTTEL was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA, in 1954. “I started writing poems in earnest in 1979 to try and make some sense of my life.” Huttel is the author of several chapbooks including Rainy Day Cliffhanger (Proper Tales Press), Bucktown Serenade (e.p. press), and The Be Seeing You Variations (Surrealist Poets’ Gardening Assoc.). “Most of the poems I’ve written in the last few decades have been in the context of correspondences with other poets, most durably Lillian Necakov and Christine Aument.

Jeff Latosik’s work has appeared in magazines and journals across the country. His first book, “Tiny, Frantic, Stronger” will be published in the Spring by Insomniac Press. The film option is still available. Terrence Malick, if you’re out there, please tacitly agree to do the film by making no response to this message whatsoever.

Lillian Necakov lives in Toronto where she has been writing and publishing for the past 30 years. She is the author of Sickbed of Dogs, Wolsak and Wynn 1989, Polaroids, Coach House Press 1997, Hat Trick, Exile Editions 1998 and The Bone Broker, Mansfield Press 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in the U.S.A., Europe, China and Canada, including Surreal Estate: 13 Canadian Poets Under the Influence, Mercury Press, 2004.

Stuart Ross is a Toronto fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He sold 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto during the ’80s. Stuart is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, an underground literary institution since 1987. He has edited many literary magazines, including: Mondo Hunkamooga, Who Torched Rancho Diablo?, Dwarf Puppets on Parade, Peter O’Toole, and, most recently, the poetry magazine Syd & Shirley. Stuart has given readings at hundreds of venues in Canada, the U.S., England, and Nicaragua and appeared at many literary festivals. His work has appeared in scores of journals here and in the U.S. His poetry collections from ECW Press include The Inspiration Cha-Cha (1996), Farmer Gloomy’s New Hybrid (1999), which was shortlisted for the 2000 Trillium Book Award, Razovsky at Peace (2001), and Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected (2003). In spring 2007, Anvil launched Stuart’s fifth major poetry collection, I Cut My Finger. In spring 2008, he released his most recent collection Dead Cars in Managua from DC Books’ Punchy Poetry imprint.

Phoebe Tsang was born in Hong Kong, grew up in England and currently resides in Canada. She is the author of the poetry collection Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse (Tightrope Books), due to be launched 5^th November 2009. Phoebe’s poetry can be found in the anthologies Garden Variety (Quattro Books) and Not a Muse (Haven Books). Journal credits include Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), Atlas 02 (UK & India), Brand (UK), and Freefall (Canada). Her chapbooks are Solitaires (Lyrical Myrical Press, 2006) and To Kiss the Ground (Press On! 2007). A professional violinist, she is a multi-genre artist who holds a BSc in Architecture from the University of London.