welcome to
common readings
2012
December 5th, 2012 - 8pm
Carey Toane
Sachiko Murakami
Stevie Howell
a writer/translator evening
**November 7th , 2012**
**8pm**
with readings by:
Nathan Baker - poet, scholar, and enthusiastic translator of the poems of Michel Bulteau (from French)
Medeine Tribinevicius - author, explorer, and translator of many things from Lithuanian
and Jessica Moore, your host, many-hat-wearer, and translator of the québécois poetic novel 'Turkana Boy' by Jean-François Beauchemin
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Readings at the Common presents
Devon Code
Jenny Sampirisi
and Ishan Davé
June 27th, 2012
Readings from
Martha Baillie
Malcolm Sutton
and Marianne Apostolides .
Thursday June 7th, 2012
8 pm
ABOUT THE POETS
Aisha Sasha John is a poet and a dancer. Her most recent publication is the chapbook Gimme yr little quiet (BookThug 2012). She is also the author of The Shining Material (BookThug 2011) and the curator of the online gallery BOOM FOR REAL (http://hugetime.tumblr.com/). Her current work-in-progress is called the The Book of You.
Carina Löf is a chiropractor, acupuncturist, urban forager and nutrition consultant, step mom, and meditation instructor. currently she spends her time with her work, tending her backyard gardens, foraging for wild things, being with her family and blogging. she's interested in the ephemeral, slide projectors, conflicting interfaces, faces, and forests.
Soraya Peerbaye is a poet whose first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committeeon Antarctic Names, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She is completing her second manuscript, Tell, based on her thesis, a collection of poems in response to the 1997 murder of Reena Virk. She is also a student of flamenco, gardening and birding.
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
The lovely and multi-talented ERIN ROBINSONG,
reading with
KATHLEEN BROWN, writer, explorer, and editor of Dandelion Magazine (http://kathleenbrown.wordpress.com/);
and RAY HSU, international man of letters (http://thewayofray.com/#4d5/linkedin)
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
8 pm
poems by Daniel Renton
creations by Chris Boni
work by Paul Vermeersch