Pivot is getting a jump on Poetry Month. We take two audience regulars and two of the citys best emerging poets and add in a major voice in contemporary feminist poetics. Detroit and Prince George and Toronto. Springtime.

Cast List:

Jessica Bebenek is a Toronto poet and writer with work appearing in Prairie Fire, Grain, and Little Brother, among other places. She is the founder of the micro-press Grow & Grow and the author of three chapbooks, most recently Kettle Song. She is at work on her first full collection of poetry, tentatively titled No One Knows Us There. She knits.

E. Martin Nolan writes poetry and non-fiction. He received his MA in the Field of Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009. His non-fiction has appeared in The Detroit Free Press, Pucklife.com, Broken Pencil Magazine and The Puritan Magazine. His poetry has also appeared in The Puritan. He is currently working on a poetry manuscript entitled For the Ghost of Muley Graves and looking for a home for another, Still. He teaches, edits and writes in Toronto. You might know him as Ted.

Gillian Wigmores latest book of poems, orient, is published by Brick Books. She is also the author of two previous books of poems: Dirt of Ages, published by Nightwood Editions, and soft geography, published by Caitlin Press, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay award and won the 2008 Relit award. She has also written a novella, Grayling, published by MotherTongue Publishing in 2014. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologized. She lives in Prince George, BC.

Pivot Readings at the Press Club

Featuring Jessica Bebenek, E. Martin Nolan, and Gillian Wigmore.

Wednesday, March 25th

8 PM

850 Dundas Street West

PWYC Suggested: $5

Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney