All Scream

The Scream Mainstage is on Monday, July 13th and features:

Oana Avasilichioaei
Wakefield Brewster
Margaret Christakos
Peter Culley
Jeramy Dodds
Paul Dutton and Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Lisa Foad
Susan Holbrook
Ryan Kamstra
Shani Mootoo
Andrew Pyper
Adam Sol

Full festival calendar here.

I Scream

I'll be performing a short piece before the screening of Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 as part of this year's Scream in High Park festival.

Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 10:00pm

Trash Palace

89-B Niagara (down the alley, follow the sandwich board to the back door entrance)

Cost: $5 admission

Fahrenheit 451 (1966, dir. by François Truffaut)

“The books have nothing to say.”
– The Captain.

Ray Bradbury knew books were in threat of extinction long before the rest of us. Join several noted Toronto poets in the underground resistance at Toronto's classiest cult cinema, the Trash Palace, for short readings and a screening of François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966). Behold the dystopia that awaits us all in the post-lit world. The dystopia that awaits us all in the post-lit world.

89-B Niagara (down the alley, follow the sandwich board to the back door entrance)

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Ditch pick

I'm featured poet for June in Ditch.

Wordwards Released

My new chapbook, Wordwards, a collection of iconographic visual poems (example above) has just been released from Calgary's wonderful No Press.

Derek's done a beautiful job with the production, and has published it in a very limited edition of 30 copies.

No website, but No Press can be contacted through a public Facebook page.

Post

I answer The National Post's Poetry Month questionnaire here.

Free Speech

I'll be reading at the Free Speech series, held at Tinto in Toronto, with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, poet/novelist Alayna Munce, and songwriter Jay Clark Reid this Monday.

Monday, April 27
7pm. Show at 7:30pm sharp. PWYC.

Tinto (89 Roncesvalles)

(bp) (10 x 2) + 1

The next installment of the three Open Letter issues exploring bpNichol, his writing, and critical reception, 20 years after this death is out now (13.8 Spring 2009).

This is the second issue to be edited by Lori Emerson and contains memoirs, poems, and academic essays by Paul Dutton, Natalie Walschots, Stephen Scobie, Stephen Voyce and many others. I contribute a short piece on bpNichol Comics which the Man from Glengarry comments upon here.

Warehouse: Poems and Stories

Three audio files of me reading from American Standard/ Canada Dry here. Recorded at the Coach House coffee room and warehouse while wearing a Husker Du t-shirt.