Jon Paul Fiorentino, myself and Carolyn Smart at Pivot last night. A good warm crowd of 50 or so. A fun time. A few more pics to come…

Silly HP printer. It thinks it can improve on Ernst Jandl’s perfektion?
P.S. It’ll be good to see those of you who can make it to the Pivot reading tonight.

(In no particular order from the toppling piles)
Copper Canyon Reader: Winter 2010
Toronto: A Literary Guide by Greg Gatenby (McArthur & Company, 1999)
correction line by Dennis Cooley (Thistledown Press, 2008)
Bhagavad Gita: As it is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
To be at Music: Essays and Talks by Norma Cole (Omnidawn, 2010)
Matrix 88: Zen Poetry
missing the kisses of eloquence by Michael Dennis (General Store, 1994)
Sooner by Margaret Christakos (Coach House, 2005)
Event 39:3 Non-fiction contest issue
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel (Norton, 1999)
The Fiddlehead: Winter 2011, No. 246

David McFadden back in Ottawa Feb 20 with Be Calm, Honey (Mansfield Press, 2008) and Why Are You So Sad? Selected poem of David W. McFadden (Insomniac Press, 2007)

Angela Carr in Ottawa with The Rose Concordance (BookThug: Toronto, 2009) and reading from new work as well at the AB Series.

Hosted by organizer inimitable Max Middle.
Poetry reading are like any kind of consumption. (Well, except this kind. But the others, yes. I digress.) Given the choice of A and B, I take both.

There was also a Dusty Owl, Christian McPherson reading from Cube People (Nightwood Editions, 2010) and The Sun has Forgotten Where I Live (2011).

Poetry goggles on. For fun.
There was an open mic (which I didn’t photograph) but I did test drive those two versions of the poem in the recent post and took polls. Which was first and which a later draft? Which version do you prefer. The majority of the room said both, then in a second survey of having to choose, most said version 2 below. (Audiences are handy.)

AngelHousePress seeks visual poems, assemic writing, collages and concrete poems for the April 2011’s nationalpoetrymonth.ca by February 28th. More details.