a series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work, prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and isolations; a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected space,
Adeena
Karasick :
“Dance For Me” from Salome: Woman of
Valor Project
Adeena Karasick
is a New York based Canadian poet, performer, cultural theorist and media
artist and the author of ten books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically
inflected, urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity
in language” (Nicole Brossard), “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion”
(George Quasha), noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing,
theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) demonstrating how desire flows through
language, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural),
word-play, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work.” (Mark Scroggins). Most
recently is Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018) and Salomé: Woman of Valor
(University of Padova Press, Italy, 2017), the libretto for her Spoken Word
opera. She teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media
Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media
Ecology, 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the
2016 Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking and
2018 winner of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. The
“Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser
University.
Pearl
Pirie :
“Sex at 38” (Sex in Sevens, above/ground, 2016) and “in the room grown
dark” (footlights, Radiant, 2020)
Pearl Pirie’s
fourth collection, footlights, comes in the fall 2020 from Radiant
Press. Her newest chapbook is Not Quite Dawn (Éditions des petits
nuages, March, 2020). Her epistle haibun chapbook, Water loves its bridges:
Letters to the dead, is due out in Dec 2020 from The Alfred Gustav Press by
subscription.
Paul
Brookes :
“The Home", "The Seem", "Folk Are Born Tall"
Paul Brookes
is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. His chapbooks are The
Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley (Dearne Community Arts, 1993), The
Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and
She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018), The Spermbot Blues
(OpPRESS, 2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018), Please
Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), Stubborn Sod, with Marcel Herms
(artist) (Alien Buddha Press, 2019), As Folk Over Yonder (Afterworld
Books, 2019). Forthcoming Khoshhali with Hiva Moazed (artist), Ghost
Holiday (Final book of threesome "A Pagan's Year"). He is a
contributing writer of Literati Magazine and Editor of Wombwell Rainbow Interviews.
Manahil
Bandukwala :
“10 Resolutions for 2020,” “The Farthest Mosque”
Manahil Bandukwala
is a Pakistani writer and visual artist currently living in Ottawa. She is the
co-lead of Reth aur Reghistan, a literary-visual exploration of folklore
from Pakistan in collaboration with her sister, Nimra. She is the Coordinating
Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is on the editorial board of Canthius.
She has authored and illustrated two chapbooks, Paper Doll (Anstruther
Press, 2019) and Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018). Her work has
appeared in The Puritan, Room, PRISM, carte blanche,
and other places.
Margo
LaPierre :
“Subdued, [a forecast]” (after rob mclennan’s poem, “Subtitled, [a primer]”), “Manic
Wire,” published in G U E S T #1 (above/ground press).
Margo
LaPierre
(www.margolapierreeditor.com) is a queer, bipolar Canadian poet and editor. Her
debut collection of poetry, Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes, was published
by Guernica Editions in 2017. She is a poetry selector for Bywords.ca,
Newsletter Editor of Arc Poetry Magazine, and Membership Chair of the
Editors Canada Ottawa-Gatineau branch. Her work has been published in filling
Station, CAROUSEL, Train Journal, and others. She/her.
@margolapierre
