Toronto Poetry Vendors
(in)dispensable poetryTPV at the Junction Flea
Food trucks, fortune telling, handmade jewelry, vintage typewriters. The Junction Flea ain’t your average yard sale. TPV is thrilled to be a part of this fantastic new event, happening this Sunday July 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dundas just east of Keele (click the above link for a handy map). If you want to be part of it too, we’ll be sharing a table with our favourite Toronto chapbook press, The Emergency Response Unit. Come down and say hello!
TPV Spring 2012: George Murray
George Murray’s animated proxy (or Murrée, as the ‘bot prefers) reads his poem “Toronto” for the out-of-towner issue. You can find a paper version of this and all the poems in our new issue at our vending machine at the Tarragon Theatre!
TPV Spring 2012: David Hickey
Just in time for the Transit of Venus! David Hickey reads “The Astronomer’s Apology,” excerpted from his collection Open Air Bindery (Biblioasis, 2011) for our spring out-of-towner issue.
Check out more video poems on our YouTube channel.
TPV Spring 2012: Stephanie Bolster
In honour of yesterday’s break from toil, here is Montreal-based poet Stephanie Bolster reading her poem “Vacation” from our out-of-towner issue.
TPV Spring 2012: Sandra Ridley
Our virtual launch party continues with a contribution from Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley, reading sections of “Dead Reckoning.”
TPV Spring 2012: Gabe Foreman
TPV’s spring issue is off to the printers! Since it’s an out-of-towner issue, we thought it’d be fun to give you a taste (a listen?) of some of the contributors reading their poems Just For You. Just to tide you over till the machines are restocked.
Here’s Gabe Foreman, wondering aloud, “Should I listen to this ox?”
Who wants a prize?!
TPV is pleased as pennies to announce that our Spring 2011 issue won an honourable mention in the 2011 bpNichol Chapbook award! Operated by the Meet the Presses collective, the award “recognizes excellence in Canadian poetry published in chapbook form.” Well, that’s just dandy. We’re so happy to be a part of it.
Thanks to MTP and to all the talented Toronto poets who contributed to the issue (Laurie D Graham, Sachiko Murakami, Aisha Sasha John, Linda Besner, Mathew Henderson, Nathaniel G Moore, Adam Seelig, Moez Surani, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Matthew Tierney), and to the other winners!
The Out-of-towner Issue
As TPV awakes from its long winter’s nap, we’re happy to announce that spring 2012 will mark our first out-of-towners issue. We can’t share the whole roster with you yet (that would spoil the surprise), but let’s just say it includes Dave O’Meara, Stephanie Bolster, Gillian Sze, George Murray and Michael Crummey.
Excited yet? We sure are. Watch this space next month for the whole line-up and more surprises.
TPV @ the Tarragon!
Toronto Poetry Vendors is very excited to announce that we will soon have a machine installed at the Tarragon Theatre — one of our favourites. Erin and the team at the Tarragon also want to let you all know that they are looking for people to submit “stories of sexual awakenings and memorable moments” as part of a special Postshow Social for this Thursday’s performance of In the Next Room or the vibrator play.
Your stories will be anonymous and read by actors from the play. To submit a story:
1. Send an email to postshowsocial@tarragontheatre.com * or;
2. Leave a voice mail with your story at 416.536.5018 ex 229. (This should be a maximum of 2 minutes long) or;
3. Slip a paper submission into the slot box marked sex stories social, located in the Tarragon lobby at 30 Bridgman Ave.
Plus you can get tickets to Thursday’s show for $10 by including the promotion code ‘social’ at the Tarragon box office, and stick around for the stories afterward. We also hear there’s beer and biscotti.
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