Thursday August 27, 2020 830pm - 10pm EST On GDTV! and Glad Day's Facebook Page Glad Day Book Shop and MJ Lyons Presenting: "Glad Day pays tribute to our history of sexual liberation and sexually charged art with stories that are intended to titillate and tantalize. This special livestreamed event will feature several smut and... Continue Reading →
Eden Mills Writers Festival: Hot Nights Cool Poets
In partnership with The League of Canadian Poets, a night of poetry ... Friday August 29, 2020. 8:00pm EST In Australia, Saturday August 29, 10:00am AEST "Heartbreak, hope, memory, body, trauma, motherhood, mayhem, love, self, queerness, oppression, resilience, addiction and…cephalopods. Grab your favourite beverage, pull up a chair and listen to a selection of the... Continue Reading →
EVENT – One Place: Socially Distant Poetry & Performance Celebration
Blank Page Initiative: A gathering at the Kitchener Land Acknowledgement mural to celebrate Indigenous voices and stories, followed by a walk to Victoria Park. "This event is a celebration of Indigenous voices, and the many experiences that we have on this land. Focusing on the Kitchener Land Acknowledgement Mural outside of the Kitchener City Market,... Continue Reading →
Eden Mills Writer’s Festival: 2020 Online Calendar
It's time. The calendar for the Eden Mills Writers' Festival is out! Myself, and 54 other authors are going to be in attendance, reading and performing at several events throughout late summer. For a complete list of events, check it out right here (link) For everything else Eden Mills WF related - check out the... Continue Reading →
Hot Damn it’s a Queer Slam:
Remote Workshop with Tyler Pennock, Friday July 10th, 330pm EST, with Glad Day TV, online only. Free. Presented as a part of Pride At The Intersections, along with Old's Cool General Store, Toronto Arts Council and our online amazing partner GDTV from Glad Day Bookshop. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hot-damn-its-a-queer-slam-workshop-with-tyler-pennock-tickets-111848241100
Toronto International Festival of Authors: Indigenous Authors Contemplate a “New Normal”
"This June marks the 11th anniversary of National Indigenous History Month in Canada, where we are fortunate to find the work of many Indigenous authors who have enlightened our hearts and minds through writing. This is a time for recognition and reflection on the unique heritage, culture and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. As it happens, this is also a time for monumental change,... Continue Reading →
Dionne Brand: On narrative, reckoning and the calculus of living and dying
A special for the Toronto Star, Dionne Brand writes about our recent times ... and what they've shown us: Sat., July 4, 2020 "I have spent my days thinking about calculus and narrative and reckoning. I have spent them tuned to the stilled and heightened frequencies of everyday life. I’ve spent my days shadowboxing the... Continue Reading →
NYT: How We Juneteenth
Please read this this project. Poetry isn't only in the words. It's in the living. "But there’s a conversation I’ve been having with my friends: Is celebrating this holiday enough to begin to fix all that’s so very broken? And, one tick further, is the national embrace of what has been known as the African-American... Continue Reading →
Virtual Toronto Lit Up: Bones
It is now official! Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto Lit Up, and Brick Books have all come together to host a virtual launch of my first published book! It will be hosted by Denise B. McLeod, with special guest, Jennifer Alicia Murrin! June 29, 2020 at 8:30 on Zoom. Check out the official page here, for... Continue Reading →
Gwendolyn Brooks: reading
Another brilliant poet we should all know, and hear regularly ... From the Youtube post: "Reads "The Near-Johannesburg Boy," "The Mother," and "We Real Cool." Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people... Continue Reading →
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