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!

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE.

30 in 30: Patrick Warner reads “Precious” from Mole, and “The Brook” by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

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Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

30 in 30: Ken Babstock reads “Materialist” from Airstream Land Yacht, and “A Paper Wind” by Peter Gizzi.

30 in 30: Matthew Tierney reads “The Rocket Scientist” from The Hayflick Limit, and “Pavlova’s Physics” by Jo Shapcott.

Buy Airstream Land Yacht here. Buy The Hayflick Limit here .

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

30 in 30 : Elyse Friedman reads “Bleeding and Laughing at Pineway & Cummer” from Know Your Monkey, and “Style” by Charles Bukowski. Buy Know Your Monkey here .

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

30 in 30 : Christian Bök reads and translates Vowels by Arthur Rimbaud.

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Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE.

30 in 30: James Langer reads “Rhythm Method” from Gun Dogs, and Microsoft Sam reads “The Scale of Intensity” by Don Paterson.

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Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

30 in 30: Jacob McArthur Mooney reads “A Guide to Locomotion” from The New Layman’s Almanac, and “The Bus” by Leonard Cohen.

Buy Jacob’s book, The New Layman’s Almanac, here .

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

30 in 30: Evie Christie reads “Homecoming” from a forthcoming collection, and “Home is So Sad” by Philip Larkin.

30 in 30: Alison Pick reads “Chasing the Good Life” from The Dream World, and “Bring in the Gods” by Jack Gilbert

Buy Evie’s book, Gutted, here. Buy Alison’s book, The Dream World, here.

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE .

Listen to George Murray read “Crosses” from Rush to Here, and “September Song” by Geoffrey Hill here.

Buy The Rush to Here here .

Coming in May! Ami McKay, Saleema Nawaz, and Monique Trottier will join the voyeuristic stylings of Seen Reading! Read on . . . CLICK HERE.

30 in 30: a.rawlings performs “Pome Poem” by bpNichol. Visit a.rawlings here.