Instructor: Oana Avasilichioaei When: 29 April 2012, 1:00-4:30 PM (Sunday) Location: Nalandabodhi Toronto, 174 Spadina Suite 506 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 perfo

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