Sunday, October 03, 2010

Indexical Elegies Readings!

Hello blog. It's been too long. Throughout this fall, I will be reading from my new book, Indexical Elegies:

Toronto Coach House Book Launch.

Vancouver International Writers Festival.

Winnipeg My City's Still Breathing Conference.

And a few more to be confirmed (Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg again, Toronto again)...

I'm looking forward to getting out west, seeing old friends and making new ones!!!

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Some Spring Readings!

I will be at AWP in Denver next week:

Friday, April 9, 2010
4:30pm - 6:00pm
The Dikeou Collection, Colorado Building
1615 California Street, Suite 515

Please join the Denver Quarterly and Coach House Books for an off-site AWP reading on Friday, April 9, from 3 - 6 pm at The Dikeou Collection, located in downtown Denver, just a two-block-walk from the Colorado Convention Center. There will be free wine and snacks, and no charge for the event.

Coach House will be presenting The Cross-Border Avant-Garde Extravaganza, featuring Canadians Christian Bök (Eunoia), Jen Currin (The Inquisition Yours), Jon Paul Fiorentino (The Theory of the Loser Class) and kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Rhapsodomancy) and Americans Rachel Levitsky (Neighbor) and K. Silem Mohammad (The Front). Hosted by Coach House senior editor Alana Wilcox, it promises to be a phenomenal afternoon of out-there poetry, with Flarf, surrealism, visual poetry and more! A Peace Bridge of Poetics! http://is.gd/bcElZ

Later this month, I will be at Blue Metropolis as a host for this:

SATURDAY APRIL 24 @ 9:00 PM
THE AFTER-HOURS LITERARY LUAU
DELTA CENTRE-VILLE
777 University Street
Salon ST-LAURENT

This Blue Metropolis after-hours party presents short readings from some of the small press world’s finest poets and fiction writers in a casual atmosphere. Come out after the discussions and lectures and have some fun! Cash bar.

Presented by Coach House Books, Insomniac Press, Invisible Publishing, Matrix magazine, and Snare Books.

With Katrina Best, Jen Currin, John Goldbach, Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff, Ian Orti, Alan Reed, Mike Spry, Thom Vernon, and Rachel Zolf.

And your host, Jon Paul Fiorentino. http://is.gd/bcErC

And next month in Vancouver for this:

May 13, 2010, 7pm at the UBC Library/Bookstore at Robson Square: David Derry, Jon Paul Fiorentino, and Matthew Hooton. http://is.gd/bcEjD