Events

Upcoming Events

Poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CAN Fund) during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics (February 12-28, 2010). Look for poems about the athletes, the Games, winter sport, and dispatches links on this website. And please help out our athletes by donating to the Canadian Athletes Now Fund—one month to the games, we are asking all Canadians who enjoy watching the games to donate $10 to help our athletes achieve their Olympic dreams!

Writer-in-residence for St. John’s-Kilmarnock School in Breslau, Ontario, where students are studying To Whom It May Concern alongside King Lear. I will be discussing the book with English students and conducting workshops “Writing about high school,” “Writing about sport,” and “Found Poetry, Ekphrasis, and other ways to write using your surroundings” Jan 20th, Feb 5th, and April 8th (this workshop date will be held at York University).

May

Saturday May 8
Montreal, dialogic on Traumatology with Dr. Cornett, in collaboration with ACCESS ASIE multilingual festival

Past Events

2010

January

Sunday January 17
Plasticine Reading Series, Toronto, The Central 603 Markham Street, 6pm

Monday January 25
Carleton University, Ottawa, 2:30pm, reading from various collections of poetry and novels

Tuesday January 26
Ottawa University, noon, reading from various collections of poetry and novels

Thursday January 28
Branksome Hall, Toronto, “Why Poetry?” writing workshops and talks with English students, all day

Friday January 29
East York students plus Havergal students, writing workshop, 4pm-6pm

February

Poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CAN Fund) during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics (February 12-March 21, 2010). Look for poems about the athletes, the Games, winter sport, and dispatches links on this website. And please help out our athletes by donating to the Canadian Athletes Now Fund—one month to the games, we are asking all Canadians who enjoy watching the games to donate $10 to help our athletes achieve their Olympic dreams!

Thursday February 4
Radio show with Adrian Hoad-Reddick, The Poem Repair Shop Radio Show, CFRU 93.3, 9-10PM

Tuesday February 9
Art Bar Reading Series, Toronto, Clinton’s, 693 Bloor St. West, Valentine’s Night/Love Poetry Night

Wednesday February 10
York Author Reading and special York book launch for Traumatology, 11:30pm-1pm, York University, Founders College Senior Common Room, with York authors Patricia Keeney and Jennifer Duncan

Thursday February 11
Guest Author at The Book Lover’s Ball, charity event for the Toronto Public Library Foundation, 6PM

Friday Februay 12
CBC On the Coast (radio) interview between 4 pm-6 pm

March

Wednesday March 24
Toronto book launch for Traumatology and Meaghan Strimas’ A Good Time Had By All, Monarch Tavern, Toronto, 8pm

2009

March

Monday, March 16

York University English/Creative Writing Series
Reading from To Whom It May Concern
York University, Bethune College, Toronto
2:30-4:30 pm

Wednesday, March 25

International Women’s Day
Reading from To Whom It May Concern
48 Yonge Street, 12th floor, Toronto
6-8 pm

April

Wednesday, April 8

C3 Writers’ Conference

Monday, April 13 & Wednesday, April 15

Lecture: ”News That Stays News”
on Live Coverage and revisionist mythmaking
York University, CLH L, Toronto
4:30-5:30 pm

Tuesday, April 14

Hart House Review Launch
Reading poetry from the current issue as well as from To Whom It May Concern
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
7:30 pm

Friday, April 17

Keep TO Reading
Reading from To Whom It May Concern
Toronto Public Library – Palmerston Branch
7 pm

Wednesday, April 22

Launch of The Exile Book of Poetry Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World
Edited by Priscila Uppal
Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
7 pm doors, 7:30 pm start

Wednesday, April 29

Launch of The Exile Book of Poetry Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World
Edited by Priscila Uppal
The Green Room/Salon Vert, 5386 boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal
7 pm doors, 8 pm start

May

Saturday, May 30

Canstage Book/Play Talk
The Divine Economy of Salvation paired up with Doubt, a Parable
Nicholas Hoare Bookstore, Toronto
10:30 am – noon

June

Saturday, June 13

Westfest: Westboro Village’s festival of music, art and life
Reading from To Whom It May Concern
Ottawa

September

Wednesday, September 16

University of Toronto Speaker Series
with Anthony DeSa
A discussion of To Whom It May Concern and Barnacle Love.
AA160 Arts and Administration Building, Scarborough Campus
6 pm

Sunday, September 20

Words Alive Literary Festival
Sharon Temple National Historic Site and Museum
Sharon, Ontario

Tuesday, September 22

Winnipeg Thin Air International Writers Festival
Mainstage Reading
CanWest Global Performing Arts Centre (Manitob Theatre for Young People)
8 pm

Wednesday, September 23

University of Manitoba Reading
Cross Common Room, St. John’s College, Winnipeg
9:30am

Friday September 25

FSALA Festival of South-Asian Literature and the Arts
with Shyam Selvadurai and Padma Viswanathan
Seeley Hall, Trinity College, University of Toronto
7 pm

Saturday, September 26

R.D. Lawrence Festival Reading
with Wayson Choy and Guillermo Verdecchia
The Beaver Theatre, Minden, Ontario
11 am – 5 pm (Uppal reads 1pm)

October

Saturday, October 3

James Reaney Memorial Conference
poetry reading plus discussion of poetics
Barrie Campus of Georgian College, Ontario

Saturday, October 3

Nuit Blanche
part of Diaspora Dialogues and Bata Shoe Museum exhibit
“Where have you been in these shoes” instant poetry/art installation
(installation begins at sunset, runs until sunrise)

November

November 5 & 6, 2009

Thursday, November 5

Launch of The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories
with readings by authors and Olympic ahtletes.
The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick Ave, Toronto (at Bloor St.)
7 pm
$5 from every book sale tonight donated to the
Canadian Athletes Now Fund (to aid our Olympic athletes)

Friday, November 6

Poetry Workshop for Athletes (and others intersted in writing about sport)
Vanier College Senior Common Room, York University, Toronto
(in conjuction with Bodyworks Symposium: Intersections in Sport, Art, and Culture)
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Friday, November 20

Laurentian University prose and poetry reading
Sudbury
7:30 pm