Join Klara du Plessis, Jim Johnstone, and Christopher Patton for a triple reading at La Petite Librairie Drawn and Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard O) at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
On Friday, November 17th at 3pm in Concordia’s 4th Space (1400 Rue de Maisonneuve Ouest), Diane Seuss will be joining us virtually. Attendees have the option to attend in person or via Zoom. There will be a reading, followed by a question and answer period.
As part of the exhibitions 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 by Kuh Del Rosario, 𝙋𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙙’𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙚, 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙙’𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙪𝙚 by Émilie Allard, and Klara Du Plessis’ Poste audio, 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚/𝙣, CLARK invites all to an evening of readings!
Join Sarah Burgoyne, Misha Solomon and Bridget Huh at Librairie Pulp on March 7th for the launch of Sarah Burgoyne and Vi Khi Nao‘s collaborative mathematical infinite epic poetry book Mechanophilia (Book 1!), hosted by the inimitable Stuart Ross, editor of A Feed Dog Book, an imprint with Anvil Press. Poems will be read, books will be signed, refreshments will appear, and the number pi will unfurl among us in verse. JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF LOQUACIOUS BALLADEERING.
Poèmes et traductions en français et en anglais, mais aussi en allemand, arabe, chiac, créole haïtien, espagnol, innu-aimun, inuktitut, japonais, kinyarwanda, mandarin et plus encore!
G is a sound. Phonetically, it is represented as [χ]—and corresponds to خ in the Arabic alphabet—a guttural resonance shared between Afrikaans and Persian. Poets Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi composed G collaboratively as an act of hospitality into their languages and now they will read through the entire translingual collection, activating the playful linguistic connections and shifts.
Join Ellen Chang-Richardson for the launch of Blood Belies (Buckrider Books, Wolsak & Wynn). The evening will be hosted by Liz Howard and will feature readings by D.M. Bradford and Rachel McCrum, a Q&A, and a signing.
Join for another evening of poetry at La Marche à Côté with featured readers Rose Maloukis and Claire Sherwood. This week’s theme: Thieves. Sign up for the open mic at the door.
Join at La Marche a Cote for another evening of poetry with featured readers Kat Mulligan and Misha Solomon. Theme: Solar. Sign up for the open mic at the door.
SpokenWeb and The Capilano Review are thrilled to co-present the first event in the new reading series BELLITRIST, which will be held at Carlson Gracie, a Brazilian jiujitsu studio in downtown Montréal. The evening will feature readings from Ashton Diduck, Dani Carter, and Clint Burnham, and will serve as a soft launch for the latest issue of the Capilano Review, 4.2: IT IS WHAT IT IS (Spring 2024).
Join at La Marche à Côté for another evening of poetry with featured readers Dakota Phillips and Carlos A. Pittella. Theme: Lunar. Sign up for the open mic at the door.
Join for this event celebrating the launch of the latest issue of Headlight, a student-run journal based in the graduate English & Creative Writing programs at Concordia. There will be readings by several contributors: Kate Brooks, Louise Carson, Alana Dunlop, Dru Gary, Kat Mulligan, and Ariella Ruby, as well as copies of the new issue available for purchase!
Stuart Ross launches The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky (Coach House Books) and translator Sarah Moses launches her first book, the micro-fiction collection Strange Water (1366 Books/Guernica Editions), along with Montreal poet and singer-songwriter Jason Camlot kicking the evening off with songs and poems.
