Working with SpokenWeb’s digital archives of historical literary sound recordings, this session will introduce ideas and methods of listening to sound archives, and will lead participants in listening to and discussion of a selection of clips of recordings that document Montreal poetry readings from the 1960s to the present.
Collaborations, Listening Practice | Blue Metropolis, Concordia University, Listening, Listening Practice, Montreal, SpokenWeb
The SpokenWeb Research Network (www.spokenweb.ca) will host an in-person and virtual graduate student symposium (academic conference) to be held at Concordia University in Montreal, 16-17 May 2022, on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.”
Conferences, Symposia | Call for Papers, Concordia University, literature, Montreal, Sound, SpokenWeb, SpokenWeb Symposium 2022, Time
The SpokenWeb Research Network (www.spokenweb.ca) will host an in-person and virtual graduate student symposium (academic conference) to be held at Concordia University in Montreal, 16-17 May 2022, on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.” Proposals are due by 1 March 2022.
Opportunities | Call for proposals, Concordia University, Montreal, SpokenWeb Symposium, The Sound of Literature in Time
Virginia Woolf and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2021) is Emily Kopley’s first book. It argues that Woolf’s career was shaped by her impression of the conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free.
Launch | book launch, Concordia University, Emily Kopley, Montreal, poetry, Virginia Woolf
Join us IN PERSON for the official McGill-Queen’s University Press launch reading of two new poetry books, Jason Camlot’s Vlarf and John Emil Vincent’s Bitter in the Belly. Each book creates its own gleefully strange and sadly hilarious world from a wide gamut of emotions and texts. It will be a poetry event of the fun variety. The reading can host up to 40 attendees in the brand new Argo Bookshop space; vaccination status will be checked at the door and masks will be required throughout the event.
Launch | Argo Bookshop, book launch, Jason Camlot, John Emil Vincent, Montreal, poetry, Reading
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Institutes | Concordia University, Montreal
For Black History Month we’re screening Black Writers Out Loud, featuring Roen Higgins, Fabrice Koffy, Faith Paré and Jason Selman.
Performances | Black History Month, Montreal, performance, Quebec Writers Federation, SpokenWeb, The Words and Music Show, Wired on Words
Calling Kaie Kellough an ancestral voice is maybe presumptive or even paradoxical, considering the bold aesthetic leaps in his work, and his widening reputation as a necessary innovative voice among a rising generation of writers in Canada. Whether it be in the circuitry between voice, image, and jazz of his collaborative “UBGNLSWRE” with musician and composer Jason Sharp and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, or in the lyrical torrent of his Magnetic Equator, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (McClelland & Stewart, 2019), Kaie’s poiesis is undeniably futurist. It’s from the futurism of his writing, however, that the ancestral surfaces. He is attuned to the frequencies of many Black histories unfolding all at once. The ‘past’ still reverberates with the same intensity. By weaving memoryscapes across continents in Magnetic Equator and the fiction collection Dominoes at the Crossroads (Véhicule, 2020), Kaie’s work splashes in history’s restlessness. History never knocks politely. It seeps in through the floorboards. Kaie is unafraid to go down with its tide.
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Afua Cooper, Calgary, Caribbean, Dionne Brand, Dominoes at the Crossroads, dub poetry, Fabrice Koffy, H. Nigel Thomas, Kaie Kellough, Kalmunity Vibe Collective, Lillian Allen, Listening, Listening-Sound-Agency, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, M. NourbeSe Philip, Magnetic Equator, Montreal, oral performance, the Wailers, The Words and Music Show
In this session, we will listen and read together, to reflect on the transformative potential of the letters. As we engage them in dialogic exchange, we will consider their aesthetic and political aims, their affective prowess, and their radical status as poetry.
Workshops | Concordia University, Diane Di Prima, Listening Practice, Montreal, poetry, Revolutionary Letters, SpokenWeb, workshop
This speaker series takes an algorithmically produced network diagram of publishing metadata as a jumping off point for story-telling around personal memories.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Desire Lines, Mapping, Metadata, Montreal, Publishing, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto