When: 8 March 2012, doors 7:30PM, reading 8:00PM Where: St. Stephen-in-the-field Church (Bellevue & College) -- enter at red door on College ABSOLUTELY 100% FREE, with refreshments The English Department of Ryerson University and Toronto New School of Writing's Visiting Author Series together present an evening of readings by Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah and poet Hoa Nguyen. FRED WAH was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Studying at UBC in the early 1960s, he was one of the founding editors of the

When: 19 November 2011 - 7:30PM Where: St. Stephens-in-the-field, St. Stephens-in-the-field, 103 Bellevue Ave, Toronto (enter at Red Door on College Street). Price: $15 at the door / $10 in advance Toronto New School of Writing's Visiting Author Series is pleased host an evening of readings by poets Anne Waldman and Victor Coleman, following Waldman's afternoon Experiments in Attention Workshop. With special guest AROARA (Andrew Whiteman & Ariel Engle) performing from In The Pines. ANNE WALDMAN has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry  community, a c

When: Saturday 15 October 2011 - 7:30pm Where: St. Stephens-in-the-field, St. Stephens-in-the-field, 103 Bellevue Ave, Toronto (enter at Red Door on College Street). Price: Pay What You Can (Suggested $5-10) at the door. Toronto New School of Writing is please to host an evening of readings by Phil Hall and Lise Downe, following Hall's afternoon Triptych Workshop. PHIL HALL's first small book, Eighteen Poems, was published by Cyanamid, the Canadian mining company, in Mexico City, in 1973. Among his many titles are: Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992), & Hearthedral – A