Oh, that You would enter my heart” *

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY

SAM CHEUK | JULIE MORRISSY | LIZ WORTH

FRIDAY APRIL 6TH 

knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery)

Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks (we’re shoeless).

SAM CHEUK is the author of Love Figures (Insomniac Press, 2011). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and a BA in English Literature from the University of Toronto. His poems have appeared in periodicals in Canada, USA, and Asia. He works for an environmental non-profit in Toronto.

JULIE MORRISSY is poet from Dublin. She has spent time living in Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis and San Francisco. Her chapbook I Am Where (2015) is published by Eyewear, and was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the Saboteur Awards, UK. Her debut collection Where, the Mile End is forthcoming in 2019 with BookThug. In 2016 she was named one of Ireland’s “Rising Generation” poets by Poetry Ireland, and she was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize in 2015. Morrissy has performed readings internationally, most recently in Edinburgh, New York, Utrecht, and at IFOA, Toronto. She is Vice-Chancellor Research Scholar at Ulster University, where she is in the final stages(?!) of her PhD by practice.

LIZ WORTH is the author of six books, including Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond, No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol (BookThug, 2016; nominated for the ReLit Award for poetry) and her latest, The Truth Is Told Better This Way (Book*hug, 2017). She was born and raised in Toronto, where she continues to reside.

*SAM CHEUK, Deus et Machina