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Common Readings: The September Edition
Common Readings is an exciting literary reading series hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.
Join us on Monday, September 24th and engage with the works of poets Kateri Lanthier, Aaron Tucker, and Zak Jones who will all be reading from their recent works.
Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 8 pm and runs until 9:15 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can
KATERI LANTHIER holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Her poems have been published in many journals, including The Fiddlehead, Leveler, Event, Hazlitt, Green Mountains Review, Arc, Halibut Haiku, the Literary Review of Canada, and Best Canadian Poetry 2014. She won the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize and was profiled in Portraits of Canadian Writers (Porcupine’s Quill, 2016). She is an Adjunct Professor, MA in Creative Writing, University of Toronto. Her first collection is Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011). Her second is Siren(Véhicule Press, 2017). Siren was longlisted for the 2018 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Poems from Siren have been included in four anthologies.
AARON TUCKER is the author of the novel Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos (Coach House Books) as well as two books of poetry, Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp (Bookthug Press) and punchlines (Mansfield Press), and two scholarly cinema studies monographs, Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films and Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema (both published by Palgrave Macmillan).His current collaborative project, Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed (http://aarontucker.ca/3-d-poems/); he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (http://chesspoetry.com). Currently, he is a guest on the Dish with One Spoon Territory, where he is a lecturer in the English department at Ryerson University (Toronto), teaching creative and academic writing. He began his doctorate as an Elia Scholar in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at York University in Fall 2018.
ZAK JONES is an American expatriate living and writing in Toronto. Zak borrows his delivery style from revival-tent preachers and factory chaplains but his material is concerned more with the waking dream of loss, the double exposure of memory, the circus of family and the burning smell of sentimentality. His poems have appeared in The Hart House Review, Milkweed Zine, and other various rags and is forthcoming in Palimpsest: Yale’s Graduate and Literary Arts Magazine. Zak is a graduate student at University of Toronto where he has completed a manuscript of poetry and is working on a novel about isolation in southern Appalachia.
Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.
For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.
Common Readings Literary Reading Series runs at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday.
Common Readings: The August Edition
Common Readings is an exciting literary reading series hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.
Join us on Monday, August 27th at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Jessie Jones, Marc di Saverio, and Emilia Nielsen who will all be reading from their recent works.
Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can
JESSIE JONES grew up in the prairies, spent a decade on Vancouver Island, and now lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in CV2, Lemonhound, PRISM International, The Puritan and Arc among others. She has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award, selected as Editor’s Choice in Arc’s Poem of the Year, and been first-runner up in PRISM International’s Poetry Prize. She is the founder of Literistic and is currently at work on a new poetry manuscript.
MARC DI SAVERIO hails from Hamilton, Canada. His poems and translations have appeared in such outfits as Maisonneuve, CNQ, and Hazlitt. In Issue 92 of Canadian Notes and Queries Magazine, poet and critic Shane Neilson called Di Saverio’s Sanatorium Songs (2013), “the greatest poetry debut from the past 25 years.” In 2016 he received the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Best Emerging Writer. In 2017, his work was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, his debut became a best seller in both Canada and the United States, and he published his first book of translations: Ship of Gold: The Essential Poems of Emile Nelligan (Vehicule Press). Forthcoming in Spring 2019 is his epic poem, Crito Di Volta (Biblioasis). He is currently writing his first novel, the Daymaker, and his second book of translations, L’Infinito: The Selected Poems of Giacomo Leopardi.
EMILIA NIELSEN’s debut book, Surge Narrows (Leaf Press, 2013), was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Body Work, her second collection of poetry, was published by Signature Editions in spring 2018. She is the author of the scholarly text Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair, forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press in spring 2019. In 2017-2018 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta. She recently joined York University’s Department of Social Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Health & Society Program.
Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.
For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.
Common Readings Literary Reading Series runs at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday.
Lost & Found Discussions | The Stories of Our City
Lost & Found | Discussion No. 2: The Stories of Our City
Thursday, August 16th – 6:30PM-8:30PM
Storytelling brings life to collective beliefs, ideas, knowledge and values; it connects people, inspiring them to recall aspects of their history and to see different perspectives. Our stories provide an intangible link to the past which continues to shape our communities today.
Toronto is a city with many stories – capturing the complete story of this city is an exciting challenge. Moderated by Cheryl Thompson, this panel discussion will explore how the narrative of Toronto’s story changes when different voices add their stories. How can we use different understandings to broaden our interpretation of this city to tell a richer, more complex story? How can we bring multiple stories from communities together in a way that invites everyone to learn? Join us August 16th for this exciting discussion!
Learn more here.
Museum Closed – August 5th and 6th
Please note that Campbell House Museum will be closed Sunday, August 5th and Monday, August 6th for the Civic Holiday. We look forward to welcoming you on the 7th!