Campbell House Museum

Come for the Words and the Wine is an exciting literary reading series organized by Common Readings.

Join us on Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Ben Gallagher, Laura Ritland, and Michelle Brown who will all be reading from newly published books available for purchase at the event.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm. 

Pay-What-You-Can

BEN GALLAGHER is a poet and essayist, who divides his time between Toronto, ON and Scotch Village, NS, where he helps to organize a co-operative farm. He is currently in a PhD program at OISE, studying poetry curriculum and pedagogy, alternative arts education, and land. He is also a co-host of semi-regular Listening Parties. Recent writing can be found in The Maynard, The Puritan, Sewer Lid, Arc, (parenthetical), and Lion’s Roar.

LAURA RITLAND’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, CNQ, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016), a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, she currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley and a current Simpson Fellow with the Simpson Family Literary Project. Her debut collection East and West launches with Véhicule Press this April.

Originally from Victoria, BC, MICHELLE BROWN lives in Toronto with her husband and three-legged dog Bo. Previously shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.

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.

Hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series will run at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday until June 25. 

Come for the Words and the Wine is an exciting literary reading series organized by Common Readings.

Join us on Monday, March 26th at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Dani Couture, E. Martin Nolan, and Mugabi Byenkya who will all be reading from newly published books available for purchase at the event.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm. 

Pay-What-You-Can

E MARTIN NOLAN is a poet, essayist and editor. He edits interviews at The Puritan, where he’s also published numerous essays, interviews and blog posts. His long, illustrated poem about Donald Trump, “Great Again,” can be found greatagainpoem.com. His non-fiction writing focuses on literature, sports and music. His first book of poems, Still Point, was published with Invisible Publishing in Fall, 2017.

MUGABI BYENKYA was born in Nigeria to Ugandan parents and is currently based between Kampala and Toronto. Mugabi is a writer, poet and rapper who honed his craft through writing workshops, poetry slams, cyphers and open mics from across North America and East Africa. Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award in 2015, has been featured on Brittle Paper, The Good Men Project and his writing is used to teach international high school English reading comprehension. His debut novel, ‘Dear Philomena,’ was published in 2017 and he recently concluded an 18 city North American tour in support of this.

DANI COUTURE is the author of several collections of poetry and the novel Algoma (Invisible Publishing). Couture’s work has been nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, received an honour of distinction from the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers, and won the ReLit Award for Poetry. Her new collection of poetry, Listen Before Transmit, will be published in March 2018.

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.

Hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series will run at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday until June 25.