the IV lounge reading series:

photo: Steve Venright
Current Bookings:
Apr 11:
Stan Dragland (The Drowned Lands, novel)
Heather Wood (Barbies, Breasts & Bathing suits, fiction)
Jaclyn Piudik (The Tao of Loathliness, poems)
Apr 25:
Christopher Doda (Aesthetics Lesson, poems)
Penn Kemp (poet, pennkemp.ca)
Nathan Whitlock (A Week of This, a novel)
May 9:
10th anniversary night! Brief readings by ten readers, including Elyse Friedman, Paul Vermeersch, Matthew Fox, Colin Carberry, Karen Press, Rick Crilly, Jacob Scheier, Adrienne Weiss, Rabea Murtaza, John McFetridge.
May 23:
Kurt Zubatiuk (Ekstasis, poems)
Domenico Capilongo (I Thought Elvis was Italian, poems)
Jacob McArthur Mooney (The Layman’s Almanac, poems)
I'm currently booking and hosting the IV lounge reading series in Toronto, which maintains a comfortable and enjoyable atmosphere. The series turned five in May of 2003, which is when I took it over from Paul Vermeersch.
It's every other Friday night, either published or promising readers (ideally people come out to see an established reader and catch sight of a promising one) at 326 Dundas St W, across from the Art Gallery of Ontario. It's free, and always at 8pm.
Listings can usually be found in NOW or EYE and WORD, the literary calendar.
The Danforth Review published an interview with me at around the time I took over hosting the series.
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