Featured Reader at Plan 99

April 15, 2023, 5pm, The Manx Pub, 370 Elgin

My first in-person reading since 2019 will take place as part of Ottawa’s venerable Plan 99 series hosted by David O’Meara since…1999! I’ll read little snippets from Trouble (Hem Press, 2022), Fear of Elevators (Turret House, 2023), Beast Body Epic (forthcoming from AngelHousePress, 2023) and DIABETES! (w-i-p). Thanks to David O’Meara for inviting me! I am excited to read with Gillian Sze and Adam Sol, two poets I admire.

Please note that the venue is accessed via stairs. The kitchen will be closed during the reading, but open after. The bar will be open the whole time. I urge attendees to wear masks when they aren’t drinking (or later, eating).

Here’s the info:

Where: The Manx Pub (370 Elgin St, Ottawa)

When: Saturday, April 15th at 5:00 pm (until 6)

Who: 

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a pansexual polyamorous feminist writer, visual poet, editor and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory.
Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, Sweden, 2021), and fallen angel of AngelHousePress.
She is the author of over thirty chapbooks and four works with spines, Trouble (Hem Press, UK, 2022), Genesis (Timglaset Editions 2022), Kiki (Chaudiere Books, Canada, 2014; Invisible Publishing, Canada, 2019) and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, USA, 2014). Through AngelHousePress she published an erotic novella in 2014 entitled A World of Yes and will publish her poetry collection, Beast Body Epic in autumn, 2023. Her latest chapbook is Fear of Elevators (Turret House, 2023.)
Earl’s creative missions are exploration,community-building, whimsy, and connection with kindred misfits.

Adam Sol latest collection is Broken Dawn Blessings (ECW 2021), which won the Canadian Jewish Literary award. He has published four other books of poetry, and one collection of essays, How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry. He is the Coordinator of the Creative Expression & Society Program at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky, and their three sons.

Gillian Sze is the author of multiple poetry collections and picture books. Her poetry has been nominated for the QWF’s A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, as well as received awards such as the University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize and the 3Macs carte blanche Prize. Her latest book, Quiet Night Think, was published last year with ECW Press and is a collection of poems and essays that explores the early shaping of a writer, the creative process, and motherhood. www.gilliansze.com