The March 25 Toronto launch of Carousel 25 now features six readers:
Fred Gaysek
Julian Gobert
Jim Johnstone
Liisa Ladouceur
gustave morin
Sandy Pool
1. Open Mic Contest:
An original poem
Max 3 minutes in length
Must contain the words: BORING. PEOPLE. LOVE. DRILLS
Open Mic Sign-up at 7:30 pm. Cash and Magazine Pack Prizes.
See you at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth [...]
Along with our readers: David Day, Bill Howell and Rod Weatherbie on Thursday February 25 we will have our first ever Sonnet Smackdown on the Open Mic
Join us at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, just east of Broadview (map).
Open Mic Sign-up at 7:30
Readings commence at 8 p.m.
Yes we did just write: The [...]
livewords kicked off 2010 with finely wrought words and sounds on a frigid night.
Please follow the links below for more information on our January readers:
a. rawlings: http://cwip.artmob.ca/contributors/arawlings
Sandy Pool: http://www.guernicaeditions.com/author.php?id=317
Heather Cadsby: http://www.poets.ca/Linktext/direct/cadsby.htm
The winner of our Cento contest was Mick Burrs with his adaptation from Emily Dickinson.
Thanks to our judges Jim Johnstone and Sue Chenette.
livewords welcomes Heather Cadsby, Sandy Pool and a. rawlings to read on Thursday January 28th at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, just east of Broadview (map). Readings commence at 8 p.m.
Heather Cadsby is the author of four books of poetry. Her most recent book, titled Could be, was published in October 2009 by [...]
On the same night we will be graced by Adam Getty, Sonja Greckol, and Blair Trewartha, we are having a form-based Open Mic Contest:
A Cento [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5771] , Sonnet [http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm] or Sestina [http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html]
Poems must be in the one of these forms.
2 $20 prizes for each runner up for best poem of each form.
1 Overall prize of [...]