Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Very excited to be featuring tonight at Hot Sauced Words, hosted by James Dewar at Blackswan Tavern (Danforth & Broadview)! 8PM onward, hope to see you there…!
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
A mother’s love liberates.
– Maya Angelou
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
At the 2012 TPS Finals, hosted at Royal Cinema Theatre, a goregeous live theatre in Toronto’s Little Italy, Toronto Poetry Project decided to create an artefact that would do the night proud; a two CD compilation, in an effort to capture the best and brightest of our beloved spoken word scene. The fine folks at Canadian [...]
Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Just a note to highlight the amazing Record a Poem Project, put on by the ever amazing Poetry Foundation (which is also home to Poetry, the oldest monthly dedicated to verse in the English speaking world). This project aims to celebrate and spread poems from around the world, and from all corners of taste. The [...]
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
~ BEST OF TORONTO~
Came home to a note from my publisher yesterday, alerting me to the amazing fact of my recent nomination in NOW Mazgazine’s Best of Toronto Edition. This annual survey is created (and voted upon) by you, Toronto’s finest, and is a huge honour for those of us who strive to entertain [...]
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems [...]
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Great thanks to Words Aloud 9 for recording and sharing the performances from Words Aloud 9. Always a pleasure and an honour to be a part of! Check out my contribution (below) as well as other excellent performances on the Words Aloud You Tube Channel…
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
TORONTO POETRY PROJECT
After last nights incredible slam, featuring none other than Toronto’s newly minted poet laureate George Elliot Clarke, I feel the need to reflect on the incredible entity that is Toronto Poetry Project (the bees behind the knees of Toronto Poetry Slam). Sprung from the inspriation and hard work of David Silverberg, TPP began [...]
Saturday, January 12th, 2013
Over the last five years, I have worked alongside fellow poets to build up Toronto Poetry Project into the amazing event series many of you attend today. We have had huge learning curves, and many successes, including being awarded host city of the 2011 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, a national competition that features world [...]
