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2019/20: Margaret Michèle Cook
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7pm: Tree Reading Series
Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.
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Brenda Leifso
Leifso's
Wild Madder
is about way-finding—through those moments in which you no longer recognize where you are.
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Elizabeth Ross
It's as if there’s a little swinging door inside the poems of Elizabeth Ross.
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Jack Davis
His well-received
Faunics
is masterly minimalism grounded in nature.
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Marie Darsigny
Funny, touching and heart-wrenching, Marie Darsigny's poetry combines nostalgia of spice-tinged Spice Girl and dépanneur wine.
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9pm: Sawdust Reading Series
Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.
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Adeena Karasick
Karasick is a NY-based Canadian performer of “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha).
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bill bissett
Called the Godfather of Canadian Poetry, bissett is renowned for his dynamic repertoire of concrete and sound poetry.
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Billeh Nickerson
Billeh Nickerson is the author of five books and a silver medalist at the Canadian Gay Curling Championships.
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Gillian Sze
Montreal writer Gillian Sze is the author of nine poetry collections.
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Rebecca Păpucaru
The Panic Room
by Rebecca Păpucaru won The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards 2018.
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Other Happenings
Concrete is Porous Exhibit
Mar 26-31 • Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.