Events

Catherine Graham will be teaching, "Life Writing at Discovery Landing: Where imagination and the real world meet", at The Observatory at Burlington's Discovery Landing. Find out more about the workshop at the City of Burlington website.

Catherine Graham's third collection of poetry The Red Element will be published by Insomniac Press in 2008. She is the author of Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998). Her poetry has appeared in literary journals in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland and has been frequently anthologized. Her website is http://www.catherinegraham.com/.

Come to a tea and presentation by Kathy Knowles, founder of Osu Children's Library Fund (OCLF), a not-for-profit organization in Ghana that connects African children to the joy of reading. The OCLF creates libraries, stocks them with culturally appropriate books, and provides literacy classes for children and adults. Raffle tickets will be selling for $1. On April 1st, buttons will also go on sale for $1 in the Claude Bissell lobby from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m.. These events are hosted by YPFIS. All proceeds go to the OCLF. http://www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca/

Join other poetry aficionados for this flow-chart series of prepared talks by Toronto poets becoming fluent in the work of some of our contemporaries, combined with dynamic poetry readings and discussion. April 2 to June 4, 2008, Wednesday Evenings, 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

For writers and readers alike.

Featuring the following 8 guest poets:

• Gary Barwin
• Allan Briesmaster
• Karen Connelly
• Kevin Connolly
• Dennis Lee
• M. NourbeSe Philip
• a.rawlings
• Rachel Vigier

Facilitated by Margaret Christakos

Coach House Books invites you to NicholBack, an evening celebrating bpNichol’s work. Last fall, Coach House published The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader, edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson. The launch of the website bpnichol.ca is this spring, and Open Letter is devoting two issues to bpNichol’s work. The celebration is at Supermarket, 268 Agusta Avenue, Toronto on Wednesday, April 2 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be introduced by Lori Emerson and will feature performances by sound poets Paul Dutton, Mark Suterland and Nobuo Kubota, and readings by Frank Davey, Lola Lemire Tostevin, damian lopes, Gary Barwin and a.rawlings.