(Tour details are listed under Readings/Events)
Two nights ago I did my first reading outside BC. It bodes well. It was not scary. Art Bar I was at the Art Bar Poetry Series with Jennifer Zilm and Madhur Anand and this morning I finished their delicious books (respectively, Waiting Room and A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes). Go get them!
This trip is proving to be a confluence of friends and poets. Some like, Jennifer, who is from BC and was shortlisted for the Kroetsch with me last year, I get to see more often. Others, like Ashley-Elizabeth Best, with whom I’m reading in Kingston on May 2 and who was also shortlisted for the Kroetsch with us, I haven’t met yet. Shannon McGuire came to the Art Bar and now I will be reading with her tomorrow night. Much criss-crossing!
It was superb to see so many ex-Vancouverites in the Black Swan Tavern on the Danforth for the Art Bar reading. It really was a warm beginning to the tour and so neat to meet so many people I have only known online.
I went walking around and found serpentine loop at Type Books! Now it is signed! That was a thrill.
Tomorrow I head towards the In The Soil Festival in St Catharine’s to read at BlurBlurBlur, possibly driving a few other poets. I will get to read with Adrienne Gruber (Vancouver!) and see my collaborating pal Andrew McEwan.
Right before that event – maybe as we drive there? – we might hear Bruce Kauffman interview Ashley-Elizabeth in the first hour and me in the second on Friday April 29th from 4-6pm EDT on CFRC 101.9fm’s ‘finding a voice’. She and I will be reading at Novel Idea Bookstore 156 Princess St, next Monday May 2nd, 7-9pm.
Multiple connections, see?
The interview will be streamed live online at www.cfrc.ca and the show will be uploaded to Bruce’s blogspace for it at http://findingavoiceoncfrcfm.wordpress.com/ , usually within a few hours of its airing, and saved indefinitely.
finding a voice on cfrc 101.9fm
findingavoiceoncfrcfm.wordpress.com This is a showcase of a weekly series of spoken word shows, ‘finding a voice’, aired on CFRC 101.9fm, Kingston, ON – Show’s host/blog space manager, Bruce Kauffman at bruce.kauffman@… |
More notes coming soon…