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livewords September is become a fiction of memory

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On Thursday, September 23, 2nd floor, at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth, we welcomed, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Nathaniel G. Moore, and Jacob Scheier for an evening of fiction and poetry.

We had a modest but enthusiastic audience who the enjoyed the mix of fiction and poetry.  The response was such that livewords will continue to expand our range of readings by including fiction and other forms of readable texts in our programming.

Click here for September Reader’s Bios

Hosted & Produced by Edward Nixon

Contact us: info@livewords.ca

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livewords as autumn leaves crinkle and frost

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livewords welcomes colour changes, crisp consonants and frost-tinged vowels:

November 4:

Jill Battson
Alex Boyd
Ian Burgham

December 2

Cactus Press fall chapbook launch and “family reunion.”

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All at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth, Second Floor.

Doors 7:30 pm
Readings at 8:00 pm

livewords September 23 with de Mariaffi, Moore & Scheier

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Join us Thursday September 23, at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth, as we welcome, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Nathaniel G. Moore, and Jacob Scheier for an evening of fiction and poetry.

Plus we welcome you to participate in the the “3-Minute Book Review” Open Mic contest. Participants will vie for Cash Prizes as determined by arbitrary & unpredictable judges.

Readings Commence at 8:00 pm

Open Mic sign-up at 7:30 pm

Reader Bios

Elisabeth de Mariaffi lives and writes in Toronto, where she is also one of the wild minds behind Toronto Poetry Vendors, a new empire of poem-filled, toonie-operated vending machines housed at indie establishments in the downtown area. Her poetry and fiction have been published lots of places; you can watch for her in forthcoming issues of The New Quarterly, Descant and CV2. Right now she’s working away at both a collection of short stories and a poem-film collaboration.

Nathaniel G. Moore is the assistant editor and books editor for Broken Pencil Magazine. His most recent books are Pastels Are Pretty Much The Polar Opposite of Chalk (DC Books) and Wrong Bar (Tightrope Books).

Jacob Scheier is a poet and journalist recently returned to his hometown of Toronto from an extended stay in Brooklyn, New York. His debut poetry collection, More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press, 2007) won the 2008 Governor General’s Award. The book was also named amongst 2008’s “best in verse” by The Winnipeg Free Press. His poems have appeared in several periodicals in North America, and he recently had a poem published in the anthology, Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man. As well, Jacob is a regular contributor to the Toronto alternative weekly, NOW and the progressive NYC newspaper The Indypendent. Jacob is also the former head editor of existere, York University’s journal of art and literature. He graduated from York in 2008 with an honors BA in Humanities.

Hosted & Produced by Edward Nixon

Contact us: info@livewords.ca

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A great evening @ livewords: fab readers, a translation winner, and a door prize

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Thursday, June 25 was one of our best ever livewords evenings @ Cervejaria. Thanks no small measure to our large and appreciative audience!

A decorous and appreciative bow to our readers Jacob Scheier, Rocco De Giacomo and Nashira Dernesch. In the admittedly bias opinion of host Edward Nixon, they each gave the best readings he has heard them do to-date. In particular Rocco seemed to have the ‘holy burn’ about him. Nashira had an emotional hold on the audience that became stronger through her reading. Jacob read favourites from More to Keep Us Warm along with new pieces to a closely listening audience that responded with warm applause. He also seemed, in some of his newest work, to prove the adage that one can indeed become ‘more Canadian’ when one lives outside the country.

Congratulations to Pelayo Matute who won our Poetry in Translation open mic with a reading of his own translation of Frederico Garcia Lorca. Our volunteer contest judges Lisa Young, Yorgos Stamatopoulos and Josh Stewart were enthusiastically unanimous.

And grateful shout-out to Charlie Huisken & This Ain’t the Rosedale Library for donating our door prize Poets in the Peaks by John Suiter, won by audience member Laurie Fredheim.