Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Ontario Legislature debates Robert Priest's poem Video by Robert - MySpace Video

The Ontario Legislature debates Robert Priest's poem Video by Robert - MySpace Video
In the midst of a fillibuster to stop the omnibus bill by the poor-bashing Mike Harris government the oppositon member reads a Robert Priest lyric and manages to goad the govt into making a point of order - thus lengthening the fillibuster ever further.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Richard reads @ Hot-Sauced Words

Sue Reynolds reads @ Hot-Sauced Words


Hot-Sauced Words is a Toronto poetry performance venue hosted by Poet James Dewar that has been flourishing since 2006, and showcasing a wide variety of poets, from well-established, award-winning poets to young, ambitious, upcoming poets.

SUE REYNOLDS has a CV longer than the rap sheet for Conrad Black, Bernie Madoff and Paul Bernardo combined. Rather than list the accomplishments here, click on her name, for the full monogrammy.

Nicola Ward reads @ Hot-Sauced Words


Hot-Sauced Words is a Toronto poetry performance venue hosted by Poet James Dewar that has been flourishing since 2006, and showcasing a wide variety of poets, from well-established, award-winning poets to young, ambitious, upcoming poets.

Nicola Ward has been charming Toronto poetry reading fans. Her recent book, HURT, is a collection of poems about mental health issues, heartache and moving on.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Sonia Di Placido reads Vulva Magic


Hot-Sauced Words is a Toronto poetry performance venue hosted by Poet James Dewar that has been flourishing since 2006, and showcasing a wide variety of poets, from well-established, award-winning poets to young, ambitious, upcoming poets.

Sonia Di Placido graduated from the Ryerson Theatre School (1996) and has worked as an actor, theatre director, drama coach, dramaturge and playwright in the UK and in Italy. She worked in the Tarragon Spring Arts Fair, performing in Romeo and Juliet under the Bathurst Street Bridge, as well as performing in two plays at the Annex Theatre.

She earned a post-graduate certificate in Magazine Publishing from Ryerson University, 2003, an Honours BA in Humanities from York University, 2006.

Her first chapbook of poetry, Vulva Magic, (2004) was published by LyricalMyracle Press. Her next chapbook of poems, Forest Primitive, was published with Aelous House Press in 2008.

Sonia is currently working on her Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing at UBC, and as a publicist for Canadian Scholars' Press/Sumach Press/Women's Press and Kellom Books.