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Jay MillAr

Jay MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, and virtual bookseller. He is the author of False Maps for Other Creatures (2005), Mycological Studies (2002), and The Ghosts of Jay MillAr (2000). His most recent collection is the small blue (Fall 2007). In 2006 he published Double Helix, a collaborative "novel" written with Stephen Cain. MillAr is the shadowy figure behind BookThug, an independent publishing house dedicated to publishing books for the enjoyment of intelligent people everywhere, as well as Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. A long-time fixture of the Toronto writing and publishing scene, Jay has participated in such diverse projects as the UNBC/Via Rail Poetry Train, The Scream in High Park, Test Readings Series and Influency: A Poetry Salon. He is also the co-editor (with Mark Truscott) of BafterC, a small magazine of contemporary writing. Currently Jay teaches creative writing at George Brown College.

Related Scream Events

Five New Manifestos on the Book & Open Letter Launch Brought to You by the Toronto Women's Bookstore

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 7:00pm

The Supermarket

268 Augusta Avenue

Cost: $7 suggested; free with purchase of Open Letter

Featured Performers
Caitlin Fisher
Bill Kennedy
Margaret Christakos
Jay MillAr
Barbara Godard
Jenny Sampirisi
Trish Salah
Erin Gray
a.rawlings


Bill Kennedy's Manifesto
Margaret Christakos' Manifesto
Jay MillAr's Manifesto

Five New Manifestos on the Book: Our Keynote Panel

In the 1890s, Mallarmé wrote, “to the question of books which are read in the ordinary way I raise my knife in protest, like the cook chopping off chickens’ heads.” In the 1920s, Benjamin declared the book “an outdated mediation between two different filing systems” and dreamt about poets’ renewed public role with “the founding of an international moving script.” Today, new media technologies realize these speculative visions for the future book – but is the book really dead? Caitlin Fisher (winner of the 4th International Digital Literature Award 2008 prize in poetry), Bill Kennedy (co-conspirator behind The Apostrophe Engine), Margaret Christakos (author of What Stirs),
Barbara Godard (Translation Studies in Canada: Institutions, Discourses, Practices, Texts) and Jay MillAr (publisher of BookThug) join in on the speculation and debate by presenting five new manifestos on the book.

TWB Launch of Beyond Stasis: Poetics and Feminism Today

The Summer 2009 issue of Open Letter features new writings by and about a group of avant-garde Canadian women writers born after 1960. Join contributors Angela Rawlings (Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists), Trish Salah (Wanting In Arabic), Erin Gray (noted poet and academic) and Jenny Sampirisi (Is/Was) at this reading and launch celebrating new work by and about some of Canada’s most innovative emerging and mid-career women writers.

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