Join us on Thursday, June 24 as livewords hosts a LAUNCH Extravaganza to celebrate the release of Rampike Magazine: Vol. 19, No. 2 – “Cultural Mischief” issue!
Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, 2nd floor, just east of Broadview (map).
RAMPIKE Edited by Karl Jirgens
Launch evening hosted by livewords producer Edward Nixon
- Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
- Readings commence at 8:00 p.m.
Featuring short readings by the following authors!
(Note; a different reading order will be effect on the night of the event)
- Gary Barwin
Greg Betts
Clara Blackwood
Margaret Christakos
Frank Davey
Adam Dickinson
John Donlan
Claudio Gaudio
Karl Jirgens
Jim Johnstone
Babar Khan
rob mclennan
Desi di Nardo
Edward Nixon
Concetta Principe
Jenny Sampirisi
Lara Solnicki
Lindsay Tipping
Myna Wallin
. . . (and possibly even more!)
The new Rampike will be available along with other new publications!
Cash Bar +++ Complimentary Snacks!
A voluntary PWYC Donation will be requested to help defray event costs.
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Rampike Magazine, edited and published by Karl Jirgens and offering alternative perspectives and innovative writing, theory, visual art and critical thinking since 1979. Featuring articles by and interviews with some of the finest internationally celebrated authors, artists and critics including: Paul Auster, Kathy Acker, Russell Banks, Carl Beam, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Chris Burden, William Burroughs, Joseph Beuys, George Bowering, Catherine Bush, Louis Cabri, Janet Cardiff, Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come, Frank Davey, Christopher Dewdney, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Martin Esslin, Marty Gervais, William Gibson, Tomson Highway, Kenneth J. Harvey, Dick Higgins, Susan Holbrook, Linda Hutcheon, Thomas King, Julia Kristeva, Robert Kroetsch, Robert Lepage, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Alistair MacLeod, Nicole Markotic, Eugene McNamara, Steve McCaffery, Norval Morrisseau, Dennis Oppenheim, bp Nichol, Joyce Carol Oates, Al Purdy, Nino Ricci, Harvey Pekar, Josef Skvorecky, Rosemary Sullivan, David Suzuki, Phillipe Sollers and Fred Wah, among many others. Rampike has been praised by world-renowned critics such as Frank Davey (University of Western, Editor of Open Letter magazine),and Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University), and is distributed on four continents. — Google us. We won’t mind. Editorial offices c/o; jirgens@uwindsor.ca
Rampike magazine is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
(Rampike is printed at Coach House Printing)