1 December 2012 Doors at 7:30PM, readings to start at 8PM Location: St Stephens-in-the-field Church 103 Bellevue Avenue (enter red doors on College Street) Toronto New School of Writing is please to host a full-length reading by West Coast poet Daphne Marlatt in conjunction with her Salvaging workshop. Joining Daphne for the evening is Margaret Christakos, who will also read from her work. Daphne Marlatt's appearance at Toronto New School has been made possible in part thanks to the generous assistance of the Writer's Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts. West Coa

17 November Doors at 7:30PM, readings to start at 8:00PM Location:918 Bathurst Centre (918 Bathurst Street, north of the Bathurst Subway Station on the west side.) Toronto New School of Writing is pleased to offer a rare opportunity to catch a full length reading in Toronto by Ron Silliman, one of the key figures in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School of Poetry, who will read from The Age of Huts and The Alphabet. Joining Silliman for this event is poet and TNSoW instructor Mark Goldstein, who will read from his work. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Ron Silliman was born in Pasc

Thursday 25 October 2012, 7:30 PM Pandemonium, 2920 Dundas St. West (near Pacific) Dispatches from the Occupation (Talon Books 2012) is written in response to the combined, global ecological and economic crisis now rocking the entire world—and comes out of an awareness of how these two aspects of the crisis drive each other forward in a sort of feedback loop, though the real motor of destruction behind both crises is the idea that constant growth is both necessary and desirable—the means and end of social production—to which everything—air water labour life—can and must be sacrif

Toronto New School of Writing and Culture Works Invite You to Contribute a Poem! Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Dupont Projects, 1444 Dupont Street, Unit 31 An armature or light or a sculpture made of panels provided by Dyan Marie has become a surface for writing poetry! As part of The Toronto New School of Writing’s Culture Works project now underway for the BIG on Bloor Festival, we would like to invite you to contribute a poem to this sculpture on Tuesday July 10, at Dupont Projects, 1444 Dupont Street, Unit 31, from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. (Location: one long block wes

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 poet Lisa Robertson as we celebrate the release of Nilling, a new collection of essays by Lisa Robertson. Joining Lisa is poet Aisha Sasha John, who will launch a new chapbook titled Gimme yr lit

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: 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