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 century, then how can poetry intervene as a kind of Maxwell's demon in such entropic discussions?  Pseudo-science is a dirty word these days; how can pataphysics serve to potentially

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 the poetry laboratory and experiment with sounding, voicing and performing your poetic texts off the page. We will spend time listening to some relevant poetic performances, enga

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” engage a similar discourse to the poem simply written “For”? And what sorts of intention function to generate the immense range of occasional poetry (W.H. Auden’s “Under Which Lyre