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  • How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading
    How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading
    November 08, 2022

    How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading

    The other week, I stood on the edge of a stage down at Harbourfront, waiting for my cue. I wasn’t nervous about reading. After a year of online events, I was excited to read to a live audience, but ...

  • A Thousand More Lives: On Reading
    A Thousand More Lives: On Reading
    September 22, 2022

    A Thousand More Lives: On Reading

    I recently stumbled across an article written by Umberto Eco in Rome in 1991, translated into Spanish by Jorge Cruz and published in the Argentinean newspaper La Nación, explaining why he believed that ...

  • Speaking Your Story into Existence
    Speaking Your Story into Existence
    March 29, 2021

    Speaking Your Story into Existence

    Over the winter I was part of two separate online writing residencies through the Banff Centre. Each cohort involved wonderfully talented writers from across the land, sharing their stories, truths, and ...

  • Pivot Readings
    Pivot Readings
    June 18, 2019

    All Booked Up - Pivot Reading Series

    The roots of Pivot Readings stretch back to 1998, when poet Paul Vermeersch started a fiction and poetry reading series in Toronto’s adorably dilapidated I.V. Lounge. When that venue closed in 2008, ...

  • On Middles
    On Middles
    June 01, 2018

    On Middles

    Recently I sat at the booksellers’ table during a poetry reading. This is best-case scenario seating. You might feel a little nervous that you’ll spill your drink on hundreds of dollars of merch, ...

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