Margaret Christakos read at AB series from What Stirs as well as a number of her books, including Regreen. You can read The problem of confessionality [here] but to hear her cast it in person was even better. A great presenter and her writing is a good density. The timeslot meant she could read a few ten minute poems which is a treat. You can sit back for a bit. One poem was towards lyric. As she explained, (something like) the membrane of boundaries is always shifting so long as one lives.
Her Influency of cross-matching poets of Influency is already in a spin off. It had me looking at the plausibility of commute…
Next up for the AB Series is Joe Rosenblatt.
It’s already most of a week ago that Barry Dempster did his reading at Tree from is two new books this year… Ivan’s Birches (Pedlar Press, 2009) and Love Outlandish (Brick, 2009). He writes pretty tightly. A high density of skull pings. I like these books better than the one of his I already have, The Burning Alphabet.
Next up for the Tree reading is Erin Moure. Her translation of Chus Pato’s famed m-Tala was released simultaneously in Canada and the UK in spring 2009, and a book of collaborations with poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Expeditions of a Chimæra, will be published in the fall of 2009. Moure’s next solo book of poetry, O Resplandor, will be released in April 2010. The night has two readers…Oana Avasilichioaei, of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series in Montreal. This fall she is the writer-in-residence at Green College, UBC, in Vancouver. Moure and Avasilichioaei will read from Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009), a collaborative book of poems that explores and provokes authorial and translational impossibilities.
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