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,
Rebecca
Rustin :
“when you're walking alone act crazy”
Rebecca Rustin
is a freelance writer and translator in Montreal, Quebec. A chapbook Mercy Tax came out last fall with Rahila's Ghost Press, and her poems have
appeared in Dusie, Train, where is the river, talking
about strawberries all of the time, PRISM, and elsewhere.
Forrest
Gander :
“Facing in All Directions” from Torn Awake (New Directions).
Forrest Gander,
writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was married to
legendary poet CD Wright. Gander's most recent book was Be With, winner
of the Pulitzer Prize. CD’s last book was Casting Deep Shade, an
ecopoetic paen to beech trees.
Shane
Rhodes :
“Dead White Men,” and “Language of the Land Newly Discovered,” from Dead White
Men, and “Farm Show”
Shane Rhodes
is the author of six books of poetry, including Dead White Men (Coach
House Books), which won the 2018 Ottawa Book Award. Other notable titles
include Err, which was nominated for the City of Ottawa Book Award, X,
which created poetry out of Canada’s post-Confederation treaties, and The
Wireless Room, which won the Alberta Book Award. Shane’s poetry has also
been featured in the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry, Resisting
Canada and others and has been awarded the PK Page Founders Award for
Poetry and a National Magazine Gold Award. Shane lives in Ottawa.
Johannes
Göransson :
from “Summer”
Johannes Göransson
is the author of eight books, including most recently Transgressive
Circulation: Essays on Translation and POETRY AGAINST ALL, as well
as the translator of poets from Sweden, Finland and South Korea, including Aase
Berg, Helena Boberg and Ann Jäderlund. He is the publisher of Action Books and
teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
Ellen
Chang-Richardson :
“III. A.” from Unlucky Fours
(Anstruther Press, 2020) and “courtyard acupuncture” published February 2020 on
Bywords.ca.
Ellen
Chang-Richardson
(ehjchang.com) is an emerging poet of Taiwanese and Cambodian-Chinese descent.
Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, her writing has appeared in Bywords.ca,
Ricepaper, Hart House Review, Cypress Press, and more. Her debut
chapbook, Unlucky Fours, is now available with Anstruther Press (2020).
In addition to her writing, Ellen runs Little Birds Poetry – a series of
editing workshops based in Ottawa & Toronto. She currently lives in Ottawa
ON with her inorganic chemist/oenologist husband and their imaginary Norwich
terrier. @ehjchang