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.
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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.