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

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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

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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

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Celebrate National Poetry Month at livewords with Johnstone, McFadden, and Ross!

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On Thursday, April 23rd livewords presents:

WORDS BY:

Jim Johnstone

Jim completed his M.Sc. in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Toronto, where he is currently a doctoral candidate. His first book of poetry, The Velocity of Escape is available from Guernica Editions and his work has appeared in literary periodicals such as The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Descant, Grain, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Prism International. He is a two time winner of the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry and won second place in the 2008 CBC Literary Award in Poetry. Currently he edits Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he co-founded with Ian Williams in 2005.

David McFadden

Mr. McFadden began writing poetry, publishing in famous literary magazines, and corresponding with Jack Kerouac while still in high school in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked as a night proof reader at The Hamilton Spectator through the sixties, at the same period starting his own literary magazine, Mountain. His life in Canadian poetry has spanned five decades and David McFadden is still going strong. An Innocent in Cuba is the most recent of his many travel books over the past 30 years. In 2008 Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. McFadden is a poet’s poet and a people’s poet.

Stuart Ross

Stuart 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.

† NATIONAL POETRY MONTH OPEN MIC CONTEST:

Best Reading of one (1) of your favourite Canadian poems by one of your favourite Canadian poets (living or dead but not you).

  • $50 Cash Prize. Our inscrutable judges will pick the winner based on a match of section and presentation.
  • SIGN UP 7:30

@ Cervejaria, 842 College Street (just west of Ossington)
7:00 p.m. Doors Open
7:30 p.m. Open Mic Sign-Up
8:00 p.m. Performances Commence