Thrive Reading Series

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 8:00pm

Grad Club
162 Barrie St
Kingston, ON
K7L 3K1

The Thrive Reading series (formerly Poetry & Co) presents a reading from Sheri-D Wilson with Jennifer Londry and Jaime Forsythe.

Come have a listen at the first reading of 2011.

Jaime Forsythe’s fic­tion and poetry have appeared in Kiss Machine, Exile and the Antigonish Review, and she edited the anthol­ogy Transits: Stories From In-Between (Invisible Publishing). She lives in Kingston.

Jennifer Londry writes in a little room by a window. After the Words, (Hagios Press, 2010) is a poetry collection about the Alzheimer's journey. In 2009 she co-authored Life & Death in Cheap Motels (Hidden Brook Press) with R.D. Roy. Jennifer lives in Kingston.

Sheri-D Wilson is a poet, performer, film-maker, educator, producer and activist. She has seven collections of poetry; her most recent, Autopsy of a Turvy World (2008, Frontenac House), was launched in April at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival. Her last collection, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit award. She has two Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom), and four award-winning VideoPoems: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004), and The Panty Portal (2008), all produced for BravoFACT.
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