Campbell House
The beautiful weather is here and so are the beautiful words. Common Readings keeps the literary energy flowing throughout the summer with exceptional writing the whole year through. Please join us on July 22nd, in the bright and sunny Withdrawing room at the Campbell House Museum, for these three wonderfully talented local voices:
MLA CHERNOFF, CAITLIN GALWAY, U. S. DHUGA
Doors: 7pm Come for the Words and the Wine!
MLA CHERNOFF They are a PhD candidate at The Neoliberal University of York University. MLA's first collection of pomes was released by Bad Books in the spring of 2018. Their second collection, TERSE THIRSTY, is now available through Gap Riot Press. Have a nice day and please stay hydrated. Have you heard of CBD oil? You just gotta find the right strain of Wellbutrin if you wanna get outta bed before noon. Let’s catch up soon; I love you xo xo.
CAITLIN GALWAY is a Canadian writer and editor. Her new novel Bonavere Howl was recently named one of ten mysteries to read by The Globe and Mail, which noted her as a writer to watch. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies by House of Anansi Press and Exile Editions (selected by Leslie Feist and Gloria Vanderbilt, respectively), as well as Riddle Fence as the 2011 Short Story Contest winner, and on CBC Books as the 2011 Stranger than Fiction winner. She's currently working on a new novel and a collection of short stories.
U. S. DHUGA is an Anglo-Indian author and professor of Classical Philology based in Toronto. His classical music criticism, cultural criticism, and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, PN Review (UK), Antipodes (Australia), and elsewhere. Of his first book—a Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies monograph entitled Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy (2011)—the literary critic Nicholas Birns has written: "Umit Singh Dhuga's work on form and musicality in the choral element of Greek drama, little noticed by literary scholars in other fields, could one day become paradigmatic." Dhuga's latest book—The Sight of a Goose Going Barefoot (2017)—earned him a High Commendation from the Forward Prizes for Poetry (UK). Most recently, his work was anthologized in Faber & Faber's The Forward Book of Poetry 2018, which “showcases a selection of the best contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year.” He is currently at work on a libretto, as well as a verse translation of Sophocles' Antigone.