Archive for October, 2018

October 26, 2018, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, from a September 26th event held at the Grad Club, you’ll hear the first Queen’s Poetry Slam event in this university year’s monthly series with readings or performances by Sadie, Connor, Tia, Christian, Holly, Billie the Kid, Tabassum, Kobe, Izzy, and Alyssa Cooper.

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October 26, 2018, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from a September 10th reading and launch event held at Novel Idea Bookstore, you’ll hear Penn Kemp reading from and launching two books, ‘Fox Haunts’ and ‘’Local Heroes’, that evening. The event was organized and emceed by Elizabeth Greene.

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October 19, 2018, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring and concluding the first half of that afternoon session of the event, you’ll hear readings by Meg Freer, Bob MacKenzie, songs by Jennie Marshall, and then a musical performance by Erika Lamon.

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October 19, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from the September 22nd 100 Thousand Poets for Change event held at The Spire, you’ll hear a musical performance by SAPPH DECAF (Haley Sarfeld/Steph), and then readings by Donald Mitchell, Anne Graham, and Elizabeth Greene.

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October 12, 2018, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring first a reading from the September 22nd ‘100 Thousand Poets for Change’ event in Kingston that will consume much of this show for the next few weeks, you’ll hear Tammy Selena Tuck, with Craig Jones on guitar, reading her dedication poem to Gord Downie. Following that, you’ll hear readings by Merilyn Simonds and Wayne Grady at the September 6th double launch of their books: ‘Refuge’, and ‘Up from Freedom’ held in the Davies Lounge of The Grand Theatre.

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October 12, 2018, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from an August 20th reading at Novel Idea Bookstore and as emceed by Allison Casteels, you’ll hear readings by Michael Casteels, Jeff Latosik, Catriona Wright, and E. Martin Nolan.

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October 5, 2018, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, and then starting about 5 minutes into it, as I try to catch up with some open mic readings, you’ll hear the final 3 readings in the August 7th ‘and the journey continues’ open mic event with readings by Eric Folsom, Joshua Schyff, and Bruce Kauffman. Then as we begin the September readings in the same series, you’ll hear readings by Gwen Whitford, Alyssa Cooper, and Jaimee Pifer.

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October 5, 2018, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, and as emceed by Carolyn Smart at Watson Hall, you’ll hear the September 21st ‘Welcome and Introduction’ of Catherine Hernandez as the fall term Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University. The hour will be filled with Catherine’s reading, discussion, and Q&A, and will even continue approximately 5 minutes into the second hour.

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