Spring Forward online poetry reading, March 22, 2023, 7 p.m.

by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Event, Poetry Blog

Spring Forward online poetry reading, March 22, 7 p.m.

Join Andrea Thompson, Brenda Clews, Allan Weiss, John Oughton and myself for an evening of poetry to welcome the spring.

This event is funded by The League of Canadian Poets.

Register

Brockton Writers Series, September 14, 2022

by admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Event, Poetry Blog

Brockton Writers Series – Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.

As we adapt with current pandemic regulations, we’re happy to announce our event will be hosted in-person at the Glad Day Bookshop, located at 499 Church St., Toronto, starting in September! We will also live stream the event on the Brockton Writers Series YouTube channel!

Guest Speaker: Kathy Friedman on “Writing & Survival: Some Tips for Mad, Sad, and Neurodiverse Folks”

Readers:
Oubah Osman
Jennifer Hosein
Kimia Eslah
Farzana Doctor

The reading is PWYC (suggested $3-$5) and features a Q&A with the writers afterward. Books are available for sale.

Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support.

ARC POETRY MAGAZINE book review by Kate Rogers – January, 2022

by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Poetry Blog, Publication

Book review by Kate Rogers

Jennifer Hosein’s A Map of Rain Days is “an unflinching evocation of the physical and emotional violence men can do to women under the pretext of love,” writes reviewer Kate Rogers, as well as “love for her mother and daughter [that] shines through even the bleakest of her poems.”

Read the full review on the Arc website; click on the image for the link.