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.

Cancelled – livewords September 8 with Denham & Latosik

It is with great regret that we must advise that the September 8th livewords show must be cancelled.

Edward Nixon is in B.C. attending to his very ill mother and the livewords secret agents despite best efforts are not able to proceed with event. Apologies to our featured readers Joe Denham and Jeff Latosik to all of you who were planning to attend and who have supported livewords.

Out of respect to our intended readers their bios are listed below:

Joe Denham

Denham’s first collection of poetry, Flux, was published in 2003. In 2009, Windstorm (Nightwood Editions), the first in a triptych of book-length poems was published, followed shortly after by his first novel, The Year of Broken Glass, in 2011. His poetry and prose has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies including: Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets; The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry; Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets; Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets; Books in Canada; The Literary Review of Canada; Maisonneuve;The Malahat Review; BC Studies; and Grain. Denham grew up on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, and has lived in Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto. He currently lives with his wife and 2 children in Halfmoon Bay, BC, where he writes, edits, builds timber frame homes, and continues to captain fishing vessels.

Jeff Latosik

Latosik’s award-winning poems have appeared in magazines and journals across the country. He won the P.K. Page Founders’ Award from The Malahat Review in 2007, placed first in THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2008, and was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for 2008. He teaches at Humber College in Toronto. His first book, Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Insomniac Press 2010) won the 2011 Trillium Book Award for Poetry.

livewords returns September 8 with Denham & Latosik

livewords returns with an extraordinary show on September 8th – featuring special guest Joe Denham reading from his new book Windstorm from Nightwood Editions, and Jeff Latosik the winner of the 2011 Trillium Award for Poetry for his book Tiny, Frantic Stronger from Insomniac Press.

We are very pleased to be welcoming Joe to livewords for the first time and to welcome back Jeff, who has been a most welcome regular at livewords.

More details on our September 8th show will be posted on Monday, August 22.

Guernica Showcase night reader bios

Thursday May 5th livewords welcomes six Guernica Editions poets for our Guernica Showcase Night at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor – [map]. Doors at 7:30 p.m. - Readings from 8:00 p.m.

Our readers for the show are:

  • Brian Day: is the author of three books of poetry, Love Is Not Native to My Blood, Azure, and Conjuring Jesus, all published by Guernica Editions.  He teaches in Toronto.
  • Baila Ellenbogen: is a poet and psycho-educational consultant who resides  in Vaughan, Ontario, with her family. She conducts research in conjunction with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, which focuses on poetry composition and investigates the cognitive and creative processes that underlie writing.
  • John Oughton: Born in Guelph, John Oughton has lived in Egypt, Iraq and Japan as well as Canada. He completed degrees in literature at York University, studying with Irving Layton and Miriam Waddington, and non-credit courses at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he worked closely with Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.  He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Time Slip (Guernica, 2005) and over 400 articles, reviews, blogs and interviews.  John is Professor of Learning and Teaching at Centennial College, and now completing a PhD in education at York University.
  • Julie Roorda: is the author of three volumes of poetry Eleventh Toe (2001), Courage Underground (2006), and most recently Floating Bodies (2010), all published by Guernica Editions.  She has also published a collection of short stories called Naked in the Sanctuary (Guernica Editions, 2004) and a novel for young adults Wings of a Bee (2007) published by Sumach Press.  She has been a winner of The Fiddlehead’s annual fiction contest and a finalist for the Confederation Poets Prize, and has published work in several literary journals across North America.
  • Karen Shenfeld: has published three books of poetry with Guernica Editions: The Law of Return (1999), which won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for poetry in 2001, The Fertile Crescent (2005), and, most recently, My Father’s Hands Spoke in Yiddish (2010). Her work has also appeared in well-known journals published in Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Bangladesh, and she has given readings in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, England (at the home of Lord Tennyson), and South Africa (at the original Manenberg’s Jazz Café). Her poetry has been featured on CBC Radio, and on the U.K.’s 39 Dover Street. Shenfeld has also brought her poetic sensibility to the writing of magazine stories. Her personal documentary, Il Giardino, The Gardens of Little Italy, was screened at the 2007 Planet in Focus Festival.
  • Elana Wolff: Elana Wolff’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada, the UK and the US. She has published five books with Guernica, including the You Speak to Me in Trees, which was awarded the 2008 F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry, and Implicate Me, a collection of short essays on individual poems by Toronto-area poets. Her fourth collection of poetry, Startled Night, will be released this fall. Elana lives in the City of Vaughan, where she writes, edits, and facilitates therapeutic community art.
Hosted by Edward Nixon

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livewords – Guernica Editions Showcase

Join us Thursday May 5 as we host our second “press showcase night” of the year featuring six Guernica Editions poets.

We are pleased to welcome:

  • Brian Day
  • Baila Ellenbogen
  • John Oughton
  • Julie Roorda
  • Karen Shenfeld
  • Elana Wolff

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As always we will be at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor – [map]
Doors at 7:30 p.m. - Readings from 8:00 p.m.


We will also have 1-poem Open Mic set to open the evening.

Hosted by Edward Nixon

PWYC Donations requested during the evening.

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