new interview with Marcus McCann at MyGSA.ca

An interview with Marcus McCann as "Aquarium's feature Queer writer" at MyGSA.ca

Monty Reid reads Sunday, September 25 at Sasquatch (Ottawa)

Ottawa poet and musician Monty Reid reads as the feature at Sunday's Sasquatch Reading Series.
2-5pm, Royal Oak Pub, 161 Laurier Avenue (basement)
Open set + featured reader(s).

Pearl Pirie reads in France, Sept 20, 2011;

to launch her new chapbook with Corrupt Press;

Chaudiere Books has moved!

please address all mailings, cheques, requests and communications, effective immediately, to:



Chaudiere Books
402 McLeod Street #3
Ottawa ON Canada
K2P 1A6

Pearl Pirie responds to a Gregory Betts essay;

On her blog, Pearl Pirie responds to (among other things) an essay by Gregory Betts, recently posted in the third issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics.

Monty Reid (workshop + reading) with George Amabile at the TREE Reading Series, Ottawa, October 11, 2011

George Amabile + Monty Reid
Tuesday October 11
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa

6:45pm Free Workshop
Monty Reid on You Are Here

In this series of 4 workshops, we will explore the spaces in and around Arts Court, the end result being a collaborative digital map with poems.

8:00pm Readings
Dead Poet Reading, Open Mic and Featured Reader(s).

George Amabile
Published in over 100 anthologies, magazines and journals, George Amabile is also the author of 7 books.

Monty Reid
Monty Reid's Disappointment Island won the Lampman-Scott Award for poetry, and he is also a 3-time winner of Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry.

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann reads at Toronto's Pivot Reading Series with Richard Krueger + Ralph Kolewe, Sept. 21, 2011

The Pivot train has started, and there’s no getting off, Toronto. Join us on September 21 for readings from three fantastic man-poets, Ralph Kolewe, Richard Krueger, and Marcus McCann. As always, at the Press Club, and as always, doors are at 8. Your gracious host is Elisabeth de Mariaffi.

Pivot Readings at the Press Club
Featuring Ralph Kolewe, Richard Krueger, and Marcus McCann

Wednesday, September 21
The Press Club
850 Dundas Street West, Toronto
8 PM
PWYC 

Ralph Kolewe lives in Toronto. He is co-editor of InfluencySalon.ca, the online iteration of Influency: A Toronto Literary Salon. He makes his living as a software engineer. He takes photographs, which have been shown in various venues (you can see some of them online here), and has recently begun to admit that he also writes poems (some of which you can read here).

Richard Krueger grew up in Prince George, British Columbia, where he eventually received his Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Northern British Columbia in 1999. He was winner of the inaugural Barry McKinnon Chapbook Prize in 2006. The Monotony of Fatal Accidents, released this fall with BookThug, is his first book of poetry, though many of the poems that comprise it previously appeared in chapbook form.

Marcus McCann is a poet and journalist, the author of Soft Where and eight chapbooks, most recently The Glass Jaw and Town in a Long  Day of Leaving. In Ottawa, he was the artistic director of the Transgress festival, facilitator of the Naughty Thoughts Book Club and a host of CKCU’s Literary Landscapes. He was the managing editor of Xtra in Toronto and Ottawa until this summer; this month [September], he started law school at U of T. His next full length collection, The Hard Return, will be released in April with Insomniac.

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Pivot Readings at the Press Club
pivotreadings.ca
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Every other Wednesday at the Press Club in Toronto, we present the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; we're what's happening in literature, right now. Your hosts are Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Sachiko Murakami.