ORGANIZER: Charlie Huisken
CONTACT: charlie.huisken@gmail.com
This Toronto 100 Thousand Poets for Change took place in 3 events:
1) Found in Translation: Yosefa Raz (born in Jerusalem, mother tongue Hebrew, educated in Bay Area, USA) Dominique Russell (multi-lingual, editor of “Rape in Art Cinema”) Jim Smith (reads Spanish, author of “Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra,” actually showed up on Parra’s doorstep un-announced) Bänoo Zan (mother tongue Persian, recites Hafez and ghazels from memory) So that’s 4
2) Circus Maximus (references to on-going house reading soiree called Circus and Olson) with bpNichol Lane Writers’ Group , Charlie Huisken (reading Paul Blackburn, all the rest read original work), Michael Boughn, Emily Izsak, Oliver Cusimano , Adam Turgeon, Brad Shubat, Victor Coleman, Jonathan Pappo, Alex Cottreau, and David Peter Clark
3) Evening: Bread & Honey featured poet Stephen Cain (author of “Torontology”) Per-Form Lloyd Mangal (lives in a shelter, real-life in all senses street poet) Glen Hall , Ron Gaskin, Ted Phillips (trio giving a poetic sample of November concert invoking William S. Burroughs) , { AN } Eel (aka Neal Retke, reading poems by neo-surrealist friends and original sound poetry) , Johnny MacLeod (founder of legendary punk band Johnny and the G-Rays)