Toronto Poetry Vendors
(in)dispensable poetryIssues
TPV produces two issues a year. The most recent is our Spring 2013 “smut and heartbreak” issue, featuring:
Lynn Crosbie
Jeramy Dodds
Paula Eisenstein
Benjamin Hackman
Stevie Howell
Sandy Pool
Mark Sampson
Gillian Savigny
Jacob Scheier
Natalie Zina Walschots
Spring 2012 out-of-towner issue
Stephanie Bolster
Michael Crummey
Gabe Foreman
David Hickey
George Murray
David O’Meara
Sandra Ridley
Sue Sinclair
Gillian Sze
Nick Thran
May 2011
Linda Besner
Laurie D. Graham
Mathew Henderson
Aisha Sasha John
Nathaniel G. Moore
Sachiko Murakami
Adam Seelig
Moez Surani
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Matthew Tierney
The September 2010 issue featured the following Toronto-based poets:
Nancy Jo Cullen
Angela Hibbs
Jim Johnstone
Jeff Latosik
Michael Lista
Pasha Malla
Leigh Nash
Lindsay Tipping
Aaron Tucker
Zoe Whittall
Our inaugural issue was released April 2010, consisting of 10 handmade broadsides by 10 Toronto poets:
-Kevin Connolly
-Dani Couture
-Elisabeth de Mariaffi
-Andrew Faulkner
-Jacob McArthur Mooney
-Stuart Ross
-Jenny Sampirisi
-Meaghan Strimas
-Carey Toane
-Paul Vermeersch
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