Tranzac Club
Awwww snap! We're back, y'all. Same Bat-place, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, different Bat-host.
Join us once again as we kick off another season of Pivot in style with three Bs—something that was not planned in the least bit. We've got Jessica Bebenek all the way from Montréal, Joshua Chris Bouchard, and one of Pivot's former hosts in Michelle Brown.
We've also got a new host in William Kemp, and, well, he'd love for you to make him feel like he's doing half as good as Michelle and Canisia did by showing up and being rad and supportive of the amazing readers.
It ought to be a fantastic night to kick off the Fall 2019/Winter 2020 season. Doors will open at 7:15 with readings starting promptly at 8:00, and, well, with it being a season opener with amazing readers and all, expect it to fill up fast.
Your featured readers are:
JESSICA BEBENEK is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who uses performativity & humour as a way to explore topics such as loss & grief, gendered power dynamics, sexuality & shame. Her recent books include the poetry chapbook Fourth Walk and k2tog, an art book of knitting patterns for poems. She currently works as a teacher and risograph bookmaker, and is at work on her first full-length collection, No One Knows Us There.
JOSHUA CHRIS BOUCHARD's collection of poetry and photographs, Let This be The End of Me, was published by Bad Books Press in 2018. He is also the author of the chapbooks WOOL WATER (words(on)pages press) and Portraits (In/Words Press). His poetry is forthcoming in Carousel, and has appeared in PRISM international, Acta Victoriana, carte blanche, Arc, The Puritan, Hart House Review, BafterC, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and more. He lives in Toronto.
MICHELLE BROWN's poetry has been published in The Walrus, Malahat Review, Arc, CV2, Grain, Prism, and The Puritan, among others. She is also a runner-up for CV2's Young Buck prize and the CBC poetry prize. Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection. She lives in Toronto with her husband and dog Bo, where she works as a copywriter and runs an online fabric store.
Also, Pivot, wishes to acknowledge the land on which we gather for this reading. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are eternally grateful to have the opportunity to work, collaborate, and gather on this land.