Pivot Reading Series (2017-2018) presents the season finale with Safiya Sinclair. She joins Canadian poets Suzanne Buffam and Whitney French. This event will take place on Thursday, May 17, 2018, 8:00 to 10:30pm, at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto (Ontario, Canada).

Suzanne Buffam was born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned an MA in English literature from Concordia University in Montreal, and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently A Pillow Book, which was named one of the ten Best Poetry Books of 2016 by The New York Times. Her other books are The Irrationalist, a finalist for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Past Imperfect, winner of Canada’s 2006 Gerald Lampert Award. She has lived in Chicago since 2003.

Whitney French is storyteller and a multi-disciplinary artist. She is a certified arts educator who has executed over 100 workshops in schools, community centres, prisons, group-homes and First Nations’ reserves. Her debut collection 3 Cities was self-published in April 2012. Additionally, her writing has been published in Descant Magazine and anthologized in The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry. Whitney French is also the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine. She writes in trees often.

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry, the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and selected as one of the American Library Association’s “Notable Books of the Year.” Sinclair received her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

Meet us in the Tiki Room of the Tranzac Club. Doors at 8, words at ~8:30, PWYC (suggested donation $5!). Pivot is hosted by Canisia Lubrin and Michelle Brown Colistro at an inclusive & accessible venue!

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]

Source: https://pivotreadings.ca