Celebrate National Poetry Month

a free virtual reading with Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton and Amanda Earl

I am thrilled to be sharing the virtual stage with two brilliant poets and dear friends. I will be reading from a manuscript-in-progress, the Twenty-Six, a work that engages with the alphabet and my grapheme synaesthesia. One of the poems I’m working on is entitled An Alphabet of Storms. I am grateful to the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers who funded this manuscript and to the League of Canadian Poets for funding my reading.

Please register here to get the Zoom link.

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ex-Puritan, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press). They are a Senior Editor at Augur, Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, and guest edited issues of CV2 and Room Magazine. You can find their nonfiction and poetry in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, reviewer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry.  Her latest book is Beast Body Epic, a collection of long poems about her near-death health crisis. Her latest chapbook is Seasons, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Amanda is grateful for funding from the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant Program for Writers. Photo credit: Charles Earl.

Please come to our virtual celebration of National Poetry Month on April 13, 2024, 2pm Eastern Daylight Time. Register here to reserve your ticket and get the Zoom link in your e-mail.