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 on earth could this possibly have to do with a creative practice? Participants will to come to class with some lines or a stanza from a poem of someone’s that brings them pleasure. Then

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 set in Core Sample 1, we will further explore the novel as core sample. New participants are welcome. Works by such contemporary visual artists as Rachel Whiteread, Flavio Trevisan, Be

(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 tricked into it. It has to be some path that you’ve never seen on a map before. I think all of my books as far as they’re successful have just followed the bloody path to see where it goe