April 26, 2024, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, from again that April 2nd open mic, you’ll hear readings by Jan Allen, Anne Archer solo and w/CACCIA, Leo Roberts, Abbie Miolee, Keith Poole, Lori Vos, Jane Macdonald, Heather Lindsay, Sonali Somaia, Meg Freer, Violetta, Thomas Sinaguglia, Eric Folsom, Cory Tokay, Jhordan Layne, Abbie Miolee, Chris, Alison Wong, and Bruce Kauffman.

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April 26, 2024, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from the April 2nd ‘and the journey continues’ open mic reading in that monthly series at The Elm Café, you’ll hear readings by Keith Poole, Sofie Vlaad, Lori Vos, Alanna Veitch, Jane Macdonald, Heather Lindsay, Laurel Chaisson, Sonali Somaia, Meg Freer, Alison Wong, Brent Raycroft, Violetta, Thomas Sinaguglia, Judith Popiel, Eric Folsom, Cory Tokay, Chris, Jhordan Layne, and Bruce Kauffman.

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April 19, 2024, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring the final minutes of the KWF event that filled the first hour, and it followed then by my recording of a very recent book launch event at Novel Idea Bookstore held on April 11th. That evening Helen Humphreys launched and read from her new novel called “Followed by the Lark,” and Elizabeth Ruth read from and launched her “Semi-Detached.”

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April 19, 2024, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from a Sept 28, 2023 KWF event called “We Don’t Talk About Class”, you’ll hear Deborah Dundas and Ricardo Tranjan in conversation about class, of who controls the narrative, and why it must change. The event will run just a few minutes into the second hour, uninterrupted. 

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April 12, 2024, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring a selection of readings and poetry performances off The Al Purdy Songbook, released in 2018 and featured numerous musicians who were encouraged by the producers of this album to “take poetic license and adapt his work as freely as they liked.”

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April 12, 2024, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from a Sept 30, 2023 KWF event called “Musical Matinee: The Gertrudes with Sadiqa de Meijer,” you’ll hear performances by and conversations between the group and Kingston Poet Laureate Sadiqa de Meijer. The event will run just a few minutes into the second hour, uninterrupted. 

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April 5, 2024, 5-5:45pm – second (partial) hour of a two hour show featuring the continuation of the first hour’s KWF event with Charlotte Gray and Lawrence Scanlan and runs until almost 5:45. At that time, CFRC was set to Live-feed a portion of the Tricolour Awards live from the University Club at Queen’s University. That 15 minutes, unrelated and not part of this show, was not uploaded to this blogspace.

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April 5, 2024, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, first my March 14th interview with Nora Gold around her just published book, a set of novellas called “In Sickness and in Health” and “Yom Kippur in a Gym.” The phone interview includes Nora reading from both stories. At about 4:45pm, the second element of this show begins and includes an unaired 2023 KWF event featuring author Charlotte Gray in discussion with Lawrence Scanlan around her book “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt.” It will run uninterrupted into the second hour.

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March 29, 2024, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, you’ll hear readings by Eve Thomson, Jen Gregory, Sarah Emtage, Billie Kearns, Jill Glatt, Catherine Jones, Kikih Skye, Leo Roberts, Daniel Pauley, Brendan Sheppard, Violetta, Jan Allen, Meg Freer, Jane Macdonald, Alison Wong, Thomas Sinaguglia, Eric Folsom, Cory Tokay, Judith Popiel, and Bruce Kauffman.

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March 29, 2024, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from the March 5th ‘and the journey continues’ open mic reading in that monthly series at The Elm Café, you’ll hear Kingston Poet Laureate Sadiqa de Meijer, Jen Gregory, Sarah Emtage, Billie Kearns, Catherine Jones, Kikih Skye, Leo Roberts, Violetta, Shannon Hope, Sofie Vlad, Jan Allen, Laurel Chaisson, Meg Freer, Manisha Blaskovitch, Jane Macdonald, Alison Wong, Thomas Sinaguglia, Eric Folsom, Cory Tokay, and Judith Popiel.

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