I will be celebrating the launch of my new book, Great Silent Ballad, throughout the Autumn of 2024. Below, you’ll find a list of my scheduled appearances, which are also available on the Events Page of my website. Anansi and Flying Books Present Great Silent BalladOfficial Launch, Introduced by Beatriz HausnerTuesday, September 24, 2024 6:30 […]
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Anansi and Flying Books invite you to the launch of Great Silent Ballad, Poems, by A.F. Moritz Hosted by poet Beatriz Hausner, the launch will take place at 6:30pm on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at Flying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto View the Event Page on Flying Books
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COVER REVEAL! I’ve been teasing it on my Instagram page…It’s finally here! The cover of my next book of poems, Great Silent Ballad, publishing with Anansi on September 24, 2024. Preorder copies now from the publisher or your favourite bookseller! SAVE THE DATE! And I am happy to announce that the tentative date for the
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Someone Editions invites you to the launch of its new imprint: FRENCH LETTER SOCIETY on Saturday July 6, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, at CAPSUL STUDIO, 2nd floor, 25 Liberty Street, Toronto. The event is free, but please feel free to RSVP via Eventbrite. Also see our Facebook Invitation! The prototype and the first two of the
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Mark your summer calendars! On Saturday, July 6, 2024, we will celebrate the launch of letterpress publisher Someone Editions’ new imprint, the French Letter Society. This event will take place from 7-9pm at CAPSUL Studio, at 25 Liberty Street. The French Letter Society will release of its first two letterpress book objects, This Message Has No
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Best mark your calendars NOW for the November 21st launch of Beatriz Hausner’s She Who Lies Above (Book*hug Press). I am proud to be the moderator for this event, which will take place at Flying Books in Toronto. She Who Lies AboveBook LaunchTuesday, November 21st, 2023Event from 6:30-8:00 pm ETFlying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto
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The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto invites you to the launch of Ben Meyerson’s poetry collection, Seguiriyas (Black Ocean Press). The launch will take place on Tuesday, October 17th from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the Massey College Common Room, 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto. Readings will begin at 6:00pm and will also
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Anansi’s Annual Poetry Bash is Back! This year, the party will be held on April 27th, 7:00 to 10:00pm, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto! This pay-what-you-can event is TICKETED, so I’m inviting you to RSVP via MOCA right NOW! The 2023 Anansi Poetry Bash will highlight the launch of three stunning poetry
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Please join me for the launch of Acta Victoriana. On Friday, April 14th, 2023, Acta Victoriana will celebrate its first in-person launch since 2019! The editors look forward to welcoming you to the Cat’s Eye for a very literary evening of readings, refreshments, and meeting their wonderful literary journal contributors and editors from the past
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NEW DATE! On Thursday, March 23, 2023, I will be travelling to the Hazel McCallion Campus of Sheridan College for the launch of The Ampersand Review, Issue 3. Along with Naben Ruthnum and Ann Yu-Kyung Choi, I will take part in the panel on “Borders: Canadian Writing in Communities, the Country, and the World.” Our
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Please join me for the launch of a multidisciplinary artists’ book event, Open Cut, July 22-24, 2022. Someone Editions, with myself and and poet Beatriz Hausner, presents new works by Luciano Iacobelli and Deborah Barnett. Open Cut will take place at Someone Editions Book Salon and Gallery, 2059 Dundas Street West, Toronto, M6R 1W8. Exhibition and Readings:Friday,
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The fourth and final evening in the series, Lost Launches, takes place at 7pm, June 28, 2022, at the Art Bar (Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W, Toronto). In my role as Toronto’s Poet Laureate, I have been proud to help launch books of poetry whose proper entrance into the world was stymied by the Covid-19 crisis.
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Join us for Lost Launches III at the Art Bar, Tuesday, May 31, 7pm, Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W., Toronto
I’m pleased to introduce Lost Launches at the Art Bar! During the Covid-19 crisis, several poets launched books rather quietly into the world. In my role as Toronto’s Poet Laureate, I am now helping re-launch those books to the public. In conjunction with the City of Toronto, the League of Canadian Poets and Toronto’s Art
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Last Sunday, I took part in the Gordon Hill Press Spring 2021 Launch Party. I launched my book, The Garden, a poem and an essay, alongside Roxanna Bennett’s The Untranslatable I, Khashayar Mohammadi’s Me, You, Then Snow, and Concetta Principe’s Stars Need Counting. Here’s the full launch party, which can also be viewed on YouTube: Those looking for my
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My new book, The Garden, a poem and essay, launches this Sunday! Join me for the Gordon Hill Press spring launch in collaboration with Knife | Fork | Book on Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 3 PM EDT. Hear readings from Roxanna Bennett’s The Untranslatable I, Khashayar Mohammadi’s Me, You, Then Snow, my own book, The Garden, and Concetta Principe’s Stars
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I am beyond thrilled to announce the publication of the Special Edition Hardcover and the Broadsheet of As Far As You Know. Both are on sale now from my publisher, Anansi. This broadsheet features the title poem, “As Far As You Know,” and was printed in an edition of 50 at Coach House for Anansi.
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I am pleased to be participating in this year’s Toronto International Festival of Authors, which takes place from October 22 through November 1, 2020. For more information on the festival and to sign up, visit TIFA. Toronto Writers Collective Launch, October 22, 5:00pm I will be part of the Toronto Writers Collective Launch on October 22, 2020,
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The Toronto Poet Laureate’s 20th collection unfolds in six movements revolving around “Terrorism” and “Poetry” in all the forms they might take. – Becky Toyne The Globe and Mail lists As Far As You Know as one of their Spring Books Preview: 38 of the Best New Reads in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry & Gardening. I
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As Far As You Know is featured in CBC’s list of 22 Canadian Poetry Books to Read to Celebrate National Poetry Month. This CBC piece is a fabulous resource for those looking to dip their toes into Canadian Poetry for the first time as well as for those who’d like a closer look at a
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In place of the the multi-city bashes Anansi had planned for its three poetry titles this Spring, the press has asked each of its poets to present video readings as a way of celebrating the launches of our books from isolation. First up is a my “Bash” for As Far As You Know. Here, I
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Thanks to CBC Radio for posting two recommendations of As Far As You Know during National Poetry Month. Sean Wilson First, CBC’s All in a Day with Alan Neal hosted an April 6 Book Panel with Sean Wilson from Ottawa International Writers Festival. Sean offers a strong recommendation of As Far As You Know as
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Today is the Publication Day for my new collection of poems, As Far As You Know from House of Anansi Press. Congratulations, as well, to fellow Anansi poets, Mathew Henderson, who launches Roguelike, and John Elizabeth Stintzi who debuts with Junebat today! We were supposed to have been celebrating with a series of Anansi Bashes
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In advance of its release date (Tomorrow! April 7, 2020) Quill & Quire has given my new collection As Far As You Know a starred review! I am pleased to be featured alongside poets Chris Hutchinson and Randy Lundy. Read Micheline Maylor’s review here: Quill and Quire, Review, As Far As You Know. Check out
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I am pleased to announce the publication of my next collection of poetry, As Far As You Know, which will be released by Anansi on April 7, 2020. If you live in Toronto or plan on travelling, please mark your calendars for the official launch at the Anansi Poetry bash on April 16, 2020. [Time
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Please join me in celebrating the launch of my new Art of Surgery chapbook, part of the Vallum Chapbook Series, alongside of the writers featured in Vallum 16:1 Connections. For both venues, the event is free with $5 suggested donation. Pay $10 for entry and get a copy of issue 16:1! All proceeds go towards
Please join me this Friday night at 7:00pm at the Free Times Cafe (320 College Street, Toronto) to celebrate the launch of Someone Editions’ Noctograms, poems by Luciano Iacobelli, art by Deborah Barnett. Noctograms is the second in Someone Editions’ Little Letterpress series. I will be reading alongside of Beatriz Hausner. Luciano Iacobelli and Deborah Barnett will
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Mark your calendars! On Friday, May 25th, at 7:00 pm, Kirby from knife | fork | book is throwing Big Al’s Lovefest. To celebrate the launch of my selected poems, The Sparrow, several poets will gather together to read their favourite poems from the book. I’ll also take the floor and read some poems myself. Readers include: Jessica
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Join me at 7:00 pm on Monday, April 30, 2018 at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge) for Lyrical Fire, Iconic Poets, a reading for the Toronto Public Library’s eh List series. I will sit down with poet Herménégilde Chiasson and our poet-moderator, Beatriz Hausner. Hausner will spur on a discussion of our careers. And, we
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Great news, everyone! As part of the #AnansiPoetryProject, you can enter to win a copy of The Sparrow, along with Emma Healey’s Stereoblind and Mikko Harvey’s Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit. On top of this, you’ll receive a $50 Gift Card to knife | fork | book. Click here to enter! There is one prize to be
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The fourth and final stop on our Anansi Spring Poetry Tour is OTTAWA!! Please join me at 5:00 pm on Saturday, April 14 at the Manx Pub (370 Elgin St.) for the Anansi Poetry Bash: Ottawa. I will be launching my selected poems, The Sparrow, along with fellow Anansi poets Emma Healey () and Mikko Harvey,
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The third stop on our Anansi Poetry Tour is MONTREAL! Please join me at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 13, at La Petite Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard Ouest) for the Montreal launch of Anansi’s Spring poetry titles. We will be fêting my selected poems, The Sparrow, along with Emma Healey’s and Mikko
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Stop #2 on the April poetry tour is a Hometown Bash: Toronto! At 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2018, join me at the Henderson Brewing Company for the Anansi Poetry Bash. I will be launching my new book, The Sparrow, along with fellow poets Emma Healey () and Mikko Harvey ()! The evening will
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During the second week of April, 2018, I’m going on a poetry road trip like none other. I’ll be launching my selected poems, The Sparrow, in four cities! First stop? Brooklyn, New York! On April 10, at 7:00 pm, please join me at McNally Jackson booksellers for the Brooklyn launch of my selected poems, The Sparrow, along with
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Then the strong one was off, a willing arrow, gone, curving into the trees. -from “Death of a Sparrow,” The Sparrow I’m pleased to show off the cover design of my forthcoming book, The Sparrow: Selected Poems, A. F. Moritz, whose official “birth date” from Anansi is April 3, 2018. Many thanks to Alysia Shewchuk at
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PLEASE JOIN ME to celebrate the launch of Someone Editions’ new collection of letterpress broadsides, someone:water. These fine print broadsides feature my own poetry as well as the evocative work of Beatriz Hausner, Astrida Neimanis, and Karl Jirgens. Our words appear alongside images created by artists Susana Wald, Deborah Barnett, Seth Scriver, Pamela Dodds, Paul Till and
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Join me at the International Festival of Authors on Sunday, October 29th to celebrate the launch of The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English. This 10th Anniversary issue presents the work of 90 poets chosen from the first nine volumes of the series. I will read alongside a host of poets whose work
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Join me in celebrating the launch of The Best Canadian POETRY 2016 next Wednesday, November 30th, at the Harbourfront Centre. I will read alongside a host of poets whose work appears in the ninth edition of this now-classic anthology from Tightrope books. Readers include: Dani Couture, Lynn Crosbie, Helen Humphreys, Laurie D. Graham, Steve McOrmond,