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Kevin Connolly

Kevin Connolly’s most recent book is Revolver, published in April by House of
Anansi. drift (Anansi, 2005) won the 2006 Trillium Award for poetry. His previous poetry collections include Happyland (ECW 2002) and Asphalt Cigar (Coach House, 1995), which was nominated for the 1996 Gerald Lampert Award. He was founding editor of the influential 1980s literary magazine What!. Connolly lives in Toronto, where he works as a poet, editor, and arts journalist.

Related Scream Events

Best Practices: The Scream Alumni Night

Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 8:00pm

Supermarket

68 Augusta Ave
Toronto, ON M5T 2L9
(416) 840-0501

Cost: PWYC, $7 suggested

Featured Performers

Readers
Ken Babstock
Priscila Uppal
Kevin Connolly
Stuart Ross
Emily Schultz

Being Read
Evie Christie
Jason Guriel
Gabe Foreman
Michael Lista

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The Scream launches this year’s festival with a conceit: well-known poets will take the stage with the work of notable younger poet in hand. In a rare homage to the next generation of poetic talent, these established performers will highlight up-and-comers by reading published and unpublished work by a new poet of their choosing:

Emily Schultz, author of the Trillium nominated Songs for the Dancing Chicken, will also read the winning poems of this year’s EYE WEEKLY Poetry Contest. The night will also feature the introduction of two new Scream-savvy web projects: The Scream Archive and Joyland: A Hub for Short Fiction.

UPDATE: Check eyeweekly July 3rd to see the poetry contest winner!

Submitted by bill on May 30, 2008 - 12:07pm.

“SKYE OR MIRANDA OR VERANDAH”: VARIATIONS ON PLENTY

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 8:00pm

The Gladstone Hotel

1214 Queen Street West
416-531-4635

Cost: PWYC

Featured Performers
Kevin Connolly
NQ Arbuckle
Tamara Romanchuk
Olia Mischenko
Conor Green

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In full festival spirit, Kevin Connolly offers up his poem "Plenty" for plunder and plagiarism by artists from a range of disciplines. From Kevin’s new collection, Revolver, “Plenty” will be the main source of ideas, inspiration, letters, words, sounds and images for the artists – and for the audience.

Featuring:
"Plenty": a reading by Kevin Connolly
"Plenty": a new play by Conor Green
"Plenty": a new visual art piece by Olia Mischenko
"Plenty": a new song by NQ Arbuckle
"Plenty": a new film by Tamara Romanchuk

All followed by a set from NQ Arbuckle.

Co-sponsored by This is Not a Reading Series, Pages Books, and EYE WEEKLY

Submitted by aaron on May 30, 2008 - 3:58pm.
Submitted by aaron on May 28, 2008 - 3:04pm.

 

 

 

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