Sunday, Sunday, September 5th @ 5:00: poets Monty Reid & Lea Graham

Monty Reid is a well-known Ottawa writer, as well as being a musician in the band Call Me Katie, and has spent much of his professional life working with dinosaur bones. Among his many poetry books are Poem that Ends with Murder, The Luskville Reductions and Disappointment Island. His current projects include Host, a collection of parasite inspired poems, and A Gran Zoo, a derivation from Nicolas Guillen’s El Gran Zoo.

Lea Graham will be gracing our stage by way of the states. Currently working as a professor at Marist College, she is a prolific and graceful writer. Her poems, reviews, collaborations and articles, have been published in journals such as Sentence, Notre Dame Review, The Capilano Review and American Letters & Commentary. Her work has been included in several anthologies, the most recent, Gathering, through Haybarn Press. Calendar Girls, her chapbook, was published in 2006 by above/ground Press.

And, of course, you, our audience, are invited to take the stage as well, with your own songs, stories, poems and rants: the open mike is yours before and after the feature.

We're at the corner of Queen and Kent, down the stairs beside the Thai restaurant! See you there!