An interview with Mother Tongue Books at Apt 613.
Sunday afternoon Bywords has the quarterly reading at 2pm at Collected Works, Dusty Owl is at 3pm at Elmdale Tavern with the wedding show, and that night In/words launches Conduit magazine and Ben-Shalom’s chapbook at the Clocktower. It’s called “Martians Among Us” which reminds me of the next Martian landing due to set down in August.
Ariel Gordon just won the John Lent Award
Jake Mooney is reading at 8pm the next Tree with Stuart Ross doing the workshop at 6:45pm.
At Canadian Poets Petting Cats, Carey Toane is up who runs travelling poetry vending machines, Toronto Poetry Vendors
The Kingston Writing Fest lineup is out.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according
to which nation.
~ Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
Cameron has more details and leads on poetry goodness coming up.