Tiffany’s Wine Bar. The Colony. Toledo, Ohio. Circa 1977. An open mic poetry reading. My first. I had only ever read in churches before. This is an entirely different scene. I’m eighteen, surrounded by strangers. Adults with big hair, tie dye, and bell bottoms, all smiling, drinking wine on a sunny back patio, enjoying, […]
Tag: october
A sampling menu. knife | fork | book Opens Thursday October 6th with 2016 GOLDIE Award Winner & 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist MARNIE WOODROW @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open at 6:30PM
THE POWER OF PORTRAITURE Curated by THOMAS MAUNDER | gallery 1007 OPENS OCTOBER 13TH knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM
Listed in the Top Ten Poetry Collections— Fall 2016 Publishers Weekly “Gather the firm clever thing / from the moment looking away” In these new poems, Nguyen seems especially immersed in her own process and in the essence of writing, engaged with the “root of the words/ not the fucking use/ made purposed and stupid.” Publishers […]
“…think of it as a turbulence machine.” —Mónica de la Torre “Anna Moschovakis is a great abstract poet in the sense that she explores how formal procedures and found vocabularies and grammatical structures delimit what we can express at a given historical moment. But what makes her an indispensable writer is how she is able—and through […]
2016 GOLDIE Award Winner and 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist Marnie Woodrow’s Heyday made my toes curl with glee in anticipation of the wild recklessness of young love. A love, a novel, so vibrant, so fresh it sparkles. Joyous. – k | f | b See/hear/meet MARNIE WOODROW read from her early collection, In the Spice […]
October 6th | MARNIE WOODROW October 13th | THE POWER OF PORTRAITURE October 20th December 15th | JIM NASON October 27th | HOA NGUYEN OPENING NIGHT: 10/6 – 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist and Goldie Award winning novelist MARNIE WOODROW reads from her early collection of shorts, In the Spice House, set in […]
