• The Ecstasy of Associative Thinking

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    Instructor: Nick Thran Dates: 3 Sundays May 13, 20, and 27 from 12PM to 4PM Location: Downtown Toronto location to be announced How might we engage in both a rigorous and creative discussion about the poetics of pleasure? How do we do so in a way that doesn’t drain the process itself of pleasure? What do we even mean by ‘pleasure’ in poetry? Isn’t your pleasure different from my pleasure? What...

  • A Evening in Conversation with Lisa Robertson

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    Where: Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street in The Studio (3rd floor) When: Monday 9 April 2012, 7PM COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY FREE Toronto New School of Writing’s Visiting Writer Series, in partnership with the English Department of Ryerson University and BookThug, present an evening with Lisa Robertson in conversation with Aisha Sasha John. Please join us for an evening of conversation with...

  • The Laboratory of Unreasonable Attention

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    Instructor: Adam Dickinson When: 26 May 2012, 1:00-4:30 PM (Saturday) Location: 918 Bathurst Street, Room L5 PARTICIPANTS WANTED FOR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH!!! The Laboratory of Unreasonable Attention invites participants to a 3.14159 hour workshop on the science of imaginary solutions.  If discussions of truth and falsity have increasingly been determined by scientific discourses in the 20th and 21st...

  • Illegible Voices Perform Illegitimate Texts – A Poetic Lab

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    Instructor: Oana Avasilichioaei When: 28 April 2012, 1:00-4:30 PM (Saturday) Location: 918 Bathurst Street, Room L5 Tread on the musical margin of your text. Stir into its syntax with the knees, the oesophagus, the collarbone. How listening is textural. How to sound and embody your text’s poetic architectures. Vowelled vocables, voracious prepositions perform the necessity of markings, digital ink. Enter...

  • How To Write A Poem For The Queen: a workshop with the Parliamentary Poet Laureate

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    Instructor: Fred Wah When: 10 March 2012, 1:30 – 5:00 PM Location: Of Swallows, 283 College Street, Upper Seminar Room Would you Should you If yr asked Use up a poem To do this task? This is a workshop on the Occasional Poem. Much maligned and frequently scorned by poet laureates, the poetics of the occasional poem invite an intriguing spectrum of considerations. Can a “poem in honour of”...

  • Core Sample 2 : installation art and the novel

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    Instructor: Martha Baillie Duration: (5 weeks, 10 hours) 18 January – 15 February, Wednesdays 6-8PM Location: Nalandabodhi Toronto, 174 Spadina Suite 506 “A core sample is a cylindrical section of a (usually) naturally-occuring substance consistent enough to hold a layered structure.” “Honest speech is a relief not a discovery.” (Louise Glück) In this course, following from the groundwork...

  • The Long Poem Workshop

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    (Note: The Wednesday evening originally listed is full — second section added!) Duration: 10 Weeks (30 hours), FEB 9 – APR 12, 6:30-9:30 pm, (Thursday Evenings) Location: The League of Canadian Poets Offices, 192 Spadina Avenue Capacity: 6 students Instructor: Jay MillAr And you have to go into the serial poem not knowing what the hell you’re doing. That’s the first thing. You have to be...

Upcoming Classes & Events at TNSoW

9 April: An Evening in Conversation with Lisa Robertson

Featuring Lisa Robertson and Aisha Sasha John

Join us for the launch of Nilling, a book of essays by Lisa Robertson, and Gimme yr little quiet, a chapbook by Aisha Sasha John.

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10 March: How To Write A Poem For The Queen: a workshop with the Parliamentary Poet Laureate

Instructor: Fred Wah

This is a workshop on the Occasional Poem. Much maligned and frequently scorned by poet laureates, the poetics of the occasional poem invite an intriguing spectrum of considerations. Led by Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, this workshop asks: Can a “poem in honour of” engage a similar discourse to the poem simply written “For”?

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28 April: Illegible Voices Perform Illegitimate Texts – A Poetic Lab

Instructor: Oana Avasilichioaei


Enter the poetry laboratory and experiment with sounding, voicing and performing your poetic texts off the page and tread on the musical margin of your text.
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8 February: The Long Poem Workshop

Instructor: Jay MillAr

In this ten week course, explore the Long Poem form as a reader and as a writer.
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