Brick, A Literary Journal celebrates the launch of its winter issue with a special event featuring magazine editors and contributors at Concordia's Writers Read series on Wednesday, December 4. The event will be hosted by Montreal-based, award-winning writer and Brick editor, Madeleine Thien, alongside poet and Brick publisher, Laurie D. Graham. There will be readings … Continue reading Writers Read presents: BRICK Literary Magazine
Writers Read Presents: Alexis Pauline Gumbs with Introduction from Amber Rose Johnson
Join Writers Read for our second event of the 2024-2025 season: Dr. Amber Rose Johnson introducing Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, is a queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. Publisher’s Weekly calls her writing … Continue reading Writers Read Presents: Alexis Pauline Gumbs with Introduction from Amber Rose Johnson
unspeakable, unresolvable questions — form and function in Rankine’s Citizen
In anticipation of Claudia Rankine’s visit to Concordia University we are featuring writing that responds to Rankine’s works Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. This piece is by Concordia MA student, Chalsley Taylor. Rankine will be giving a public reading at 7pm, March 10, 2017 in the DeSeve Cinema in Concordia’s Library building on de Maisonneuve. … Continue reading unspeakable, unresolvable questions — form and function in Rankine’s Citizen
Damian Rogers is a Social Menace
Off the Page Festival welcomes Damian Rogers Thursday, November 3rd, in Concordia’s Grey Nuns Building (1175 Rue St Mathieu), room M100, starting at 7:30pm. Damian Rogers is a social person. “I will talk to someone for hours, no problem. I’m good to talk, as they say,” Rogers recently told Trevor Corkum of 49thshelf.com. The same … Continue reading Damian Rogers is a Social Menace
In with the New Shockley
Off the Page event: November 4th, 7pm, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine Those who know Evie Shockley from her 2006 publication, a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), will know how her lyrical style contains themes of ancestry and racial identity which flow through contexts of modern existential threats. Shockley’s words are … Continue reading In with the New Shockley
Bewitched by Broadbent
Writers Read and Concordia University welcome Lisa Robertson and Laura Broadbent tonight at 7pm, in the York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine Readers first shook hands with Laura Broadbent through the pages of her remarkable, and strikingly titled book, Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining? (Snare Books, 2012). … Continue reading Bewitched by Broadbent
How Poems Work: “The Stricture” by Lisa Robertson
From Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. ‘The 69 heads of Messerschmidt cast in lead are not heaven.’ ‘The magnetic cures of Mesmer on the plastic soul are more difficult to characterize.’ ‘The heavens of Flanders are like textile in lustrousness – a bridal textile.’ ‘We see the classic theme of a woman suffering, with pearl- … Continue reading How Poems Work: “The Stricture” by Lisa Robertson
Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Haunting
We have seen ghosts—in the flickering of light bulbs, of the body, and in the persisting reverberations of history. We hear them with our mouths and pens; we write them into memory. Who are they? Do they hear us? What do they know? “A Haunting” will address the question of what it means to occupy … Continue reading Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Haunting
dream/arteries to be Taught in BC High Schools
"A hundred years ago...the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru set sail for Canada with 376 Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu migrants travelling from Punjab, India. They were refused entry at Vancouver, even though all passengers were British subjects. The Komagata Maru sat moored in Vancouver’s harbour for two months while courts decided the passengers’ right to access – … Continue reading dream/arteries to be Taught in BC High Schools
Tonight: Phinder Dulai Reads
Phinder Dulai, Tuesday October 11, 7pm, LB 6.646, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. “Combined rhythmic discipline and a wide descriptive palette, wielded by a talented composer of word images; this would be the definition of anyone’s preferred reading. These essential elements are richly present in dream / arteries … While a pointed, heartfelt and lyrical precis … Continue reading Tonight: Phinder Dulai Reads
Writers Read: Concordia university's reading Series 