Monthly Archives: February 2009

A mild February night with fiery words and virbant open mic

The February 26th edition of livewords was a great night with a full and appreciative house to hear Jenny Sampirisi (check out http://otherclutter.com/), Lara Bozabalian (check out http://bozabalian.wordpress.com/), and Robert Priest (check out http://www.poempainter.com/robertpriest/).
We had a vibrant open mic contest with 12 poets vying for the judges pleasure. Nicki Ward won over our judges with [...]

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Thursday Feb 26 livewords presented Sampirisi, Bozabalian & Priest

WORDS BY:

Jenny Sampirisi: Jenny
is a poet, prose writer and editor. She is the managing editor for
BookThug and facilitates the online concrete poetry journal, Other
Cl/utter. She teaches English at Ryerson University where she runs the
Ryerson Reading Series. She is also an executive member of the Scream
Literary Festival. Her first novel, is/was explores the flexible boundaries of [...]

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Shout out to Jim Johnstone, Sandy Pool, Blair Trewartha, Aaron Tucker, Myna Wallin & Jenny Samprisi

livewords felt delectable hosting the Misunderstandings Magazine Issue 11 launch party on Friday, February 6, 2009 to a lovely crowd at Cervejaria in Toronto.  A shout out to Editor & Publisher Jim Johnstone! And to our readers: Sandy Pool, Blair Trewartha, Aaron Tucker, Myna Wallin and Jenny Sampirisi (stepping in graciiously at the last for [...]

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MM 11 - launch pictures on Open Book Toronto

Pictures of the Misunderstandings Magazine Issue 11 launch party are posted at Open Book Toronto: http://www.openbooktoronto.com/articles/photos_launch_misunderstandings_magazine! Thanks to Open Book for sending their intrepid correspondent to snap us in celebratory glory.

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