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Pivot Reading Series

Pivot Reading Series

with Adebe DeRango-Adem, Amber McMillan, Nathaniel G. Moore, and Vincent Pagé

The Steady Cafe & Bar

19/10/2016 08:00 pm

Pivot keeps going into the middle of our Fall set with two more visiting West Coasters (ex-Torontonians, the both) plus friendly Pivot regular and talented poet Vincent Pagé and the arrival of AmeriCanadian academic and award-winning poet Adebe DeRango-Adem.

Cast List:

Adebe DeRango-Adem was called a young Canadian author to watch in 2016 by Canada's current parliamentary poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke.  A former student of Anne Waldman and Amiri Baraka at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Adebe is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Ex Nihilo and Terra Incognita.  Ex Nihilo was nominated for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize, while her most recent book, Terra Incognita, published in 2015, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther award. Terra explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings both buried in the grand narratives of history and the everyday experiences of being mixed-race. Poems from the collection were also longlisted for the inaugural Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, as judged by Claudia Rankine.

Amber McMillan is the author of The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (2016) and the poetry collection We Can't Ever Do This Again (2015). Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM International, Best Canadian Poetry and other journals across North America. She lives and works on BC's Sunshine Coast.

Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of Savage 1986-2011 winner of the 2014 Relit Award for best novel. A lifelong Torontonian, Moore left our fair city in 2014 for sparse pastures in British Columbia and *didn't* write a book about it. His new book Jettison is his debut collection of short stories, out now with Anvil Press. He currently works and lives (with Amber McMillan) on the Sunshine Coast as a full-time book publicist.

Vincent Pagé has work published in Prism International, Event, The Malahat Review, Geist, Vallum, Metatron, and The Puritan, among other journals. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2015, and his first chapbook, Veinte was published with Vallum Chapbook Series. His second chapbook, IN A BURNING BUILDING THE AIR INSIDE IS HEATED BY FIRE AND SO BECOMES LIGHTER is forthcoming with Desert Pets Press. He lives in Toronto.

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