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.

Hollay Ghadery reads Comparative Anatomy


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.

Hollay Ghadery is a writer and editor living in Uxbridge, Ontario. She has recently graduated with her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph-Humber. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals throughout Canada, including Grain, The Nashwaak Review, The Kiss Machine as well as the anthologies Kingston Poets’ Gallery and ‘Scapes. Her non-fiction will be appearing in Room magazine.

Catherine Owen 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.

Catherine Owen’s poetry has been published in literary journals; The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, and Poetry Salzburg among others. With several books to her credit, she also “collaborates with multiple artists, including serving as bassist and singer in the metal bands INHUMAN and Helgrind.”

Poet Robert Priest describes her as “an extraordinarily gifted poet. It’s not just sheer sonic pleasure of her language or the largesse of her endlessly investive imagery but that she is unsettled and unsettling, deeply disobedient and yet almost selfless in her surrender to form.”