I’m so excited to be the featured poet at this month’s Voices of Venus reading in Ottawa. Warm up with us on February 8th at Venus Envy sex shop and bookstore with an evening of poetry! The event begins with an open mike, so be sure to bring your own poems!
Something about seeing Ottawa blanketed in snow has helped me to feel more at home here. I’m also excited to be doing my first poetry reading in my new hometown, courtesy of local poetry outfit, Bywords. I was excited to have my poem, Confessional, featured on their site in December, and I’m now looking forward to having other work included in the upcoming issue of the Bywords Quarterly Journal.
To launch the issue, Bywords is hosting its ninth annual fundraiser for Cornerstone Women’s Shelter, where I’ll read with Jamie Bradley and Luminita Suse. Please brave the beautiful snow to listen to some poetry and support a great cause!
Bywords Warms the Night XIV: A Benefit for Cornerstone
Sunday, January 15, 2012 – 2:00pm
Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington Street West, Ottawa
More information here.
Join me on November 17 at Arts Café in Mile End for Poetry Plus, one of Montreal’s finest and longest-running reading series. I’m looking forward to reading with a line-up of great local writers. Read on:
You’re invited to the launch of “House of Blessing,” a poetry chapbook by Montreal poet Jan Jorgensen, published this month by sitting duck press.
“House of Blessing” Chapbook Launch
Thursday, September 23 / jeudi, 23 septembre
19 h – 21 h
Griffintown Cultural Corridor
corner of Ottawa and Dalhousie / au coin des rues Ottawa et Dalhousie
This is an outdoor venue. Feel free to bring a lawn chair for your comfort. In case of inclement weather we will move indoors.
I have been honoured to serve as editor for this fine collection. Jan’s poems are brave encounters with the traumatic edges of human experience and the redemptive possibilities of the divine. She asks us to let go of what we think we know — about God, the Bible, motherhood, death. She asks us to let go of certainty altogether and contemplate grace. Come snatch up your copy, hot off the presses!
August: sunsets, sweet corn, hay fever, crickets, and poems. Come enjoy the great outdoors at these upcoming, outdoor readings in Montreal. Hope to see you there!
POETRY IN THE PARK
August 23 at 6.30pm
The Lagoon in Westmount Park (corner of Sherbrooke and Melville)
Hosted by Wanda Potrykus, with readings by: Jan Jorgensen, Claude Lalumiere, Jack Locke, Jeffrey Mackie, Dale Matthews, Elise Moser, Abby Paige, Mark Paterson, and Meg Peters.
Poèsie au Corridor culturel / Poetry in the Cultural Corridor
August 24 at 7:00pm
Place to Grow (corner of Ottawa and Dalhousie )
Griffintown Cultural Corridor
With readings by Said Azzoui, Ehab Lotayef, Brian Campbell, Dale Matthews, Abby Paige, R de Smit, erika white, Angela Leuck, and Lesley Pasquin. Followed by open mic / micro ouvert.
