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.
Next week, take a FINAL look at Bluebird Dress Factory and join us for an exciting conversation about the role of textiles in artistic practice: how can textiles be used in storytelling and preservation of memory? Can textiles help us heal?The panel discussion features:
