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VALLUM and FROG HOLLOW PRESS are launching their new chapbooks. Together! Please join us at The Central 603 Markam St. on Saturday, March 5 to celebrate these exciting new, forthcoming, and previous poetry titles! It's a poetry party!
Also joining us is singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Abigail Lapell!
It's a poetry and music party!
Readers:
Parliamentary Poet Laureate GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE
DANIEL KINCADE RENTON
VINCENT PAG
ANNICK MACASKILL
Musician:
ABIGAIL LAPELL
Doors: 6:30 PM
Readings: 7:00 PM
Entrance is FREE
www.thecentralbar.ca
The event will occur on the main floor. After the readings, Abigail Lapell will be gracing us with her songwriting! We will then move to a more intimate room upstairs where youll have a chance to meet the authors and musician, and converse. We look forward to seeing you there!
DANIEL KINCADE RENTON has been published in Prism international, Hazlitt, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, and The Fish Quill Poetry Boat 2010-2013 anthology. His poem "Sundowning" was shortlisted for the Basil Bunting award in the UK. Daniel hosts The Common Reading Series in Toronto, while completing a PhD on Jacques Derrida, Poetics, and Hypercritical Faith at York University. Milk Teeth is his debut chapbook.
VINCENT PAG is a writer living in Toronto. He has work published in Event, The Malahat Review, Prism, Geist, The Feathertale Review, Plenitude, and the Mackinac, among other journals. He is currently at work on his first collection of poems.
ANNICK MACASKILL lives and writes in Toronto. Her poetry has been published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Lemon Hound, and CV2, among others. She has also been shortlisted for The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for Poetry and longlisted for the CBC's Canada Writes Poetry Prize. Her first chapbook, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos is forthcoming with Frog Hollow Press.
The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto 2012-15 and the 7th Parliamentary [National] Poet Laureate 2016-17, GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE is an Africadian African-Nova Scotian. A prized poet, his 14th work is Extra Illicit Sonnets Exile, 2015, an erotic verse narrative. Now teaching African-Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, Clarke has also taught at Duke, McGill, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He holds eight honorary doctorates, plus appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer.
ABIGAIL LAPELL is a Canadian folk noir singer-songwriter. Drawing from traditional folk, indie and punk rock influences, her music is at once fresh and familiarintuitive melodies, sparse-plucked guitar and a voice like autumn smoke. www.abigaillapell.com/
ABOUT THE PRESSES:
Founded in 2000, VALLUM launched their Chapbook Series in 2005. Since its inception, their series has been designed to celebrate the work of one established poet and another previously unpublished poet each year. The Vallum Chapbook Series has exhibited the works of renowned poets such as Nicole Brossard, George Elliott Clarke, Franz Wright, Fanny Howe, John Kinsella, and others. Vincent Pag can now count his name among these! www.vallummag.com
Publishing literary criticism and poetry chapbooks, FROG HOLLOW PRESS strives to produce books that possess a subtle beauty expressed through their attention to detail in typesetting, cover and book design in order to enhance the relationship between the reader and the author's work. Designed by publisher, Caryl Wyse Peters, and edited by poet and critic, Shane Neilson, Frog Hollow has been working since 2001 to establish a taste that attracts this country's best young poets to the Press. Recent authors include Annick MacAskill, Danny Jacobs, Daniel Kincade Renton, and Marc di Saverio. www.froghollowpress.com
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