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.
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.
