The Factory Reading Series
15th Anniversary above/ground press Reading and Chapbook Launch
Featuring Amanda Earl (Ottawa) and Pearl Pirie (Ottawa)
Thursday, 14 August 2008
at 7:00 pm (readings at 7:30)
Presented by span-o (the small press action network - ottawa)
and the Ottawa Art Gallery
Lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
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Amanda Earl will read from the small of july, a work in progress concerning dysfunctional domestic appliances with nervous ticks and natural elements that suffer from summer ennui. Amanda is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Rampike and Peter F. Yacht Club. She is the author of two chapbooks published by above/ground press, Eleanor and The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman. Amanda's trouble making bent has led her to create a new imprint, AngelHousePress, which will publish new titles this fall and spring, including Signs of the Apocalypse Magazine. Amanda blogs too much at amandaearl.blogspot.com and ottawapoetry.blogspot.com, and she thinks it's nifty that above/ground is now a 15-year-old high school bad-ass. Pearl Pirie has been published in Womb, and her poems have also appeared in 1cent, Ottawater 4.0, Puddle Leaflets, Best of MiPo Cafe Cafe, Peter F. Yacht Club, Some Assembly Required, (Pooka Press) and at culturalshifts.com. New poems are forthcoming in Other Cl/utter, a chapbook from unarmed, and as part of Radical Vulvas. Her poetry is generally forthcoming, except when it isn't. Two most recent chapbooks are oath in the boathouse (above/ground press, 2008) and Better Ways to Go Than by Aspartame (self-published, 2007). She blogs at Pesbo, Humanyms, and 40 Words. Information: The Ottawa Art Gallery the small press action network - ottawa (cleaning out yr literary clogs since 1996); thanks to the Ottawa Art Gallery for providing space and much love.
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