Monday, October 2, 2023 7:00pm EDT
Free Times Cafe, 320 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1S3
From Art Bar:
“A night of poetry in the heart of Toronto! Art Bar is excited to welcome our features Tanis MacDonald, Frances Boyle, and Tyler Pennock.
-Cover: $10.00 at the door (all proceeds go to pay our featured poets). Free Times has a one drink/$6 minimum policy.
-Washrooms located on the ground floor
-Food and drink available at the venue, see https://www.freetimescafe.com/menu for more.
-Open mic will follow. THE OPEN MIC LIST FILLS UP FAST and is first come first served.
Features:
Tanis MacDonald is the author of Mobile: poems, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, and five other books. She is the winner of The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award for Nonfiction in 2021 and the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Teaching Creative Writing, and is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is at work on a new manuscript – like, who isn’t?
Frances Boyle’s latest book is Openwork and Limestone, published in 2022 by Frontenac House. In addition to two earlier poetry collections, she is also the author of Seeking Shade, a short story collection shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award (The Porcupines’ Quill 2020) and Tower, a novella (Fish Gotta Swim Editions, 2018), along with several chapbooks. Her debut novel, Skin Hunger is forthcoming with The Porcupine’s Quill in spring 2024. A past president of Arc Poetry Magazine and current secretary of the League of Canadian Poets, Frances has long called Ottawa home while continuing to draw upon her prairie roots for inspiration and sustenance.
Tyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), and Blood (2022), is a two-spirit adoptee queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They teach in Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto, and is the Inaugural Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University (2023).”
Tyler Pennock 
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