It’s a cool November livewords in a new location the Black Swan Tavern at 154 Danforth Avenue just steps east of Broadview Station.

livewords is pleased to welcome Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, A. F. Moritz, Robyn Sarah and Zach Wells.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, November 26 at Black Swan Tavern- at 154 Danforth Avenue just steps east of Broadview Station, please click here for a map.

A. F. Moritz‘s book of poems The Sentinel (House of Anansi Press, 2008) won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Award. His poetry has received awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Beth Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine. Night Street Repairs (Anansi, 2004) won the 2005 ReLit Award for poetry, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Brick Books, 1999) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, and The Tradition (Princeton University Press, 1986) was selected to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry, Hudson Review, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Southwest Review, The Fiddlehead, Malahat Review, The Walrus, etc. They have been selected to many anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2007, four editions of the annual Best American Poetry series, and Harold Bloom’s 1998 Best of the Best American Poetry. Moritz is editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 (Tightrope Books, 2009).

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was born in Arezzo, Italy, and was raised in Baltimore, Montreal, and Toronto. He currently resides in the countryside north of Toronto. His newest book Names of Blessing was launched this fall by Novalis Publlishng. He is the author of over thirteen books of poems from 1975 to 1986 including The Tough Romance, Dancing in the House Of Cards, Flying Deeper into the Century, and Virgin Science: Hunting Holistic Paradigms. He withdrew from the world of letters to join a monastery in 1986 and re-emerged in 2001 to publish Living in Paradise – New and Selected Poems with Mansfield Press. He has been the Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor in Italian-Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto, and in 2004 he was named as the Poet Laureate for the City of Toronto. He is an urban consultant and Curator of the Toronto Museum Project and a recipient of a 2007 Canadian Urban Institute Urban Leadership Award. He is on the design team of BMI/Pace Architects/Planners, Principal of Municipal Mind, and an ordained Roman Catholic Priest. watch?v=W57llOel9Y4&feature=related

Robyn Sarah is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Pause for Breath (Biblioasis, 2009), as well as two collections of short stories and a book of essays, Little Eurekas: A Decade’s Thoughts on Poetry.  Her writing has been published widely, anthologized and broadcast in Canada and the United States. She edited The Essential George Johnston and The Essential Don Coles for The Porcupine’s Quill, and is currently working on The Essential Margaret Avison. She lives in Montreal.

Writer and editor Zachariah Wells is the author of the poetry collection Unsettled; co-author of the children’s book Anything But Hank!; and editor of the anthology Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets. His latest book is the poetry collection Track & Trace. He lives in Halifax, where he works sporadically as an onboard attendant for Via Rail. Visit him online at zachariahwells.com or read his popular blog: Career Limiting Moves.

OPEN MIC CONTEST:

The return of our popular Poetry in Translation contest:

1. Prize for best reading of poem translated into English
2. Prize for best original translation of a poem into English.

Poems should be no loner than 3 minutes.

Poems must not be your own original writing.