Beast Body Epic at VERSeFest

Beast Body Epic at VERSeFest

i'm pleased that VERSeFest will take place this year again! I'll be reading from Beast Body Epic, so it is finally having an in-person Ottawa launch! i'll bring copies of the book. 

SECOND NIGHT - SESSION 1

22 MAR 2024 • 08:00 PM–09:00 PM EASTERN

HAPPY GOAT CAFE, 35 LAUREL

HOSTED BY STEPHEN BROCKWELL

 


Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm


Toronto Book Launch: Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne

Toronto Book Launch: Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne

Pleased to be able to celebrate the launch of Judith Copithorne's new book. Not being able to afford to go to Toronto for the reading, I have created a video that will be shared with the audience.


The evening will feature short readings by Jessica Bebenek, Stephen Cain, Amanda Earl, Rasiqra Revulva, Eric Schmaltz, and Kate Siklosi. With books for sale, refreshments, and a visual presentation of Copithorne's work throughout the night. Facebook event link: https://fb.me/e/hqeaH7lKQ

 

TIME and LOCATION: 7:00 pm @ Danu Social House (1237 Queen St W, Toronto) - https://www.danusocialhouse.ca/

   

ACCESSIBILITY: Danu Social House is an accessible space with an accessible washroom on the main floor, and a ramp to get into the premises.

 

Books will be on sale but you can also order them here: https://talonbooks.com/books/?another-order

 

ABOUT THE BOOK: Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouver’s literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithorne’s “embodied approach to text” and her tireless experiments with media – from typewriters and pens to computer software – in texts that engage issues of gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivity, spirituality, and revolution. Edited and introduced by Eric Schmaltz, this volume affirms Judith Copithorne’s position among the leading avant-garde poets and artists of her time.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Vancouver in 1939 to an artistic family, JUDITH COPITHORNE is a poet and writer who has made notable contributions to concrete poetry and other intermedia contexts from the 1960s through to the present. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was identified as a member of Vancouver’s “downtown poets” and was involved with Vancouver’s alternative art venues, including Sound Gallery, Motion Studio, and Intermedia. She was published in the first issues of blewointment and Ganglia and continues to publish her work today with small or private presses. Her work has been anthologized in New Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971), The Cosmic Chef (1970), Four Parts Sand (1972), THE LAST BLEWOINTMENT ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (1985), The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry, 1998–2008 (2012), and Judith: An Anthology of Women Making Visual Poetry (2021), among other places. Her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions and is widely influential for multiple generations of poets living and working today.

 

ABOUT THE EDITOR: ERIC SCHMALTZ is an intermedia artist, poet, scholar, and editor. He is the author of Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks), and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. His creative work has been published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally in Canada, the United States, Ireland, Greece, and elsewhere. Eric lives in Tkaronto (Toronto) for now...

 

This event is kindly sponsored by Talonbooks.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 7:00 pm


AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Ellen, Conyer and Amanda

AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Ellen, Conyer and Amanda

AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Conyer Clayton, Ellen Chang-Richardson and Amanda Earl

Saturday, April 13, 2024 2pm EDT on Zoom

a free reading sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets

 

Ellen, Conyer and Amanda will read recent and forthcoming poetry.

Register in advance to receive Zoom link in confirmation e-mail from WeGotTickets.com.

 

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press). They are a Senior Editor at Augur, Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, and guest edited issues of CV2 and Room Magazine. You can find their nonfiction and poetry in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

 

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ex-Puritan, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

 

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, reviewer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry.  Her latest book is Beast Body Epic, a collection of long poems about her near-death health crisis. Her latest chapbook is Seasons, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Amanda is grateful for funding from the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant Program for Writers. Photo credit: Charles Earl.

 

Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2:00 pm


I'm an Ottawa writer & small press publisher.   This site acts as a central hub for my shenanigans. Each section contains further details.

I'm now offering editing and mentorship services.  $10 per page of poetry, prose, visual poetry and hybrid work. $25 per 30 minutes of consultation on Zoom or phone. Read the testimonials here

Contact me at amanda at amandaearl dot com if you'd like to engage my services or require  more information.

 

Member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada

2024 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers

2023 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers

2022 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers.

2021 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers. City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers.

2020 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; Winner of the October Arc Poetry Award of Awesomeness.

2019 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers

2018 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers

2017 Winner of the 2017 Tree Chapbook Contest as judged by Stephen Brockwell

2016 - Member of  VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

2016 - 2017 Member of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) 

2016 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers; Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grants

2014 to present Member of the League of Canadian Poets

2014 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers

2014 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour Inductee along with spoken word artist, Danielle Gregoire

2013 Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grant.

2012 City of Ottawa Creation & Production Fund for Emerging Writers; OAC WR Grants.

2011 OAC WR Grants; Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award for collaboarative manuscript with Sandra Ridley; Shortlisted for Geist's Magazines Erasure Poetry Contest

2010 OAC WR Grant.