Schedule:

April 5-9: Michael Lista reads Bloom (House of Anansi Press, April 2010) CLICK HERE to listen now.

April 12-16: Dani Couture reads Sweet (Pedlar Press, June 2010) CLICK HERE to listen now.

April 19-23: Susan Holbrook reads Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House Books, October 2009) CLICK HERE to listen now.

April 26-30: Nicole Markotic, Meaghan Strimas, Sandy Pool, Sachiko Murakami, and Damian Rogers will each read a selection of poems, one poet a day, in the last week of April.

Last April for National Poetry Month, I solicited recordings from poets across Canada. The result was 30 in 30, and by the end of the month we’d amassed over 70 recordings. For many, I sat/stood/crouched/perched in front of the reader with a microphone, quietly enjoying/bemoaning the strain on my wrist/arm.

This year, I decided to extend that curious excess to full-blown athleticism by inviting three poets to read the entirety of their latest work. I went to them and we had some fun: in kitchens, in living rooms, on couches, in parks. Some poems clocked only 14 seconds, while others came in at over 19 minutes. While I’d like to think that we broke that wall together, for my part, I’ve absolutely mapped each performance as if a sponsored patch of highway, Dani Couture, Susan Holbrook, and Michael Lista each owning a length of my left and right forearms, which have only begun to stop vibrating.

Enjoy!