livewords this Thursday, April 5 with Howard, Murakami and Winger

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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livewords returns with Rob Winger, Sachiko Murakami and Liz Howard

livewords returns from its autumnal slumber and winter weariness for National Poetry Month!

We are thrilled to welcome three fine poets:

  • Liz Howard
  • Sachiko Murakami
  • Rob Winger

Plus a special “CLOSED MIC” TBA

Thursday, April 5 at The Black Swan, 154 Danforth – 2nd floor[map]

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

PWYC donations requested

RSVP on Facebook

Thanks to all who sang Happy Birthday to livewords

We were grateful to all who came out on February 3rd — over 100 through the course of the evening -to celebrate our 3rd birthday. And thrilled to sharp, shiny, glittering pieces that so many heard the words of Ian Burgham, James Dewar, Rocco de Giacomo, Liz Howard, Stephen Humphrey, Jim Johnstone, Mike Lipsius, Sachiko Murakami, Shannon Maguire, Shawn McLeod, Cathy Petch, David Silverberg, and Dane Swan. It was a privilege to have these fine fellow-travellers “in the house.”

A well-mannered shout out to the Sachiko Murakami for asking the gathered multitude to sing a chorus of Happy Birthday to this wee three reading series.

If  poets were all to exiled from the city so it might be well-governed (Plato, Republic 607d), then we can’t think of a better bunch of souls to be exiled with.

We were sorry to have regrets from Gillian Savigny and Blair Trewartha but we understand that gravity of job demands, the perils of snow and the damn frustration of an absence of transportation. We look forward to having Gillian and Blair at livewords later this year.

NEXT UP: We have the Insomniac Press Showcase night at livewords on March 3rd with Angela Hibbs, Catherine Graham, Jeff Latosik and more TBA.

In the meantime be sure to check out these fine reading Toronto reading series:

May 10 – livewords goes into the woods!

livewords will be taking words to the woods on Sunday May 10, as we join with Ontario Walks for their Mother’s Day hike through the Rouge River Valley in Rouge Park. From the urban grit and hip of College & Ossington to the sumach, ceder and the run of of river, livewords regulars and irregulars will landscape poetry to the landscape.


Sunday May 10, 10 AM Rouge Park

Edward Nixon, Jim Johnstone, Sandy Pool, Liz Howard and Luciano Iacobelli will join Ontario Walks E.D., Tom Fiore, for a walk and some words in the words.

Click here for directions and information.