Poetry At The Phoenix returns for one last show this year on December 12th at WEP Central!

Our poets for this month; Jim Johnstone and Susan Glickman! 


Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. His most recent books include a poetry collection, The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023), and a book on micropress: Write, Print, Fold, and Staple (Gaspereau Press, 2023).

Susan Glickman writes, paints, gardens, and makes soup in Toronto, where she used to be an English professor, then a creative writing instructor at both Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto, and now works as a freelance editor. Her first novel, The Violin Lover (Goose Lane, 2006) won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and was named one of the year’s best novels by The National Post. Her eighth book of poetry, Cathedral/Grove, is coming out in September 2023 from Signal Editions of Véhicule Press, back in her hometown of Montreal, who have also published all her previous collections, starting with Complicity in 1983.

We are blessed to be able to host poets of such immense talent at our lovely space at 3 Bartlett, we hope you’ll join us!

Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 7:30! Tickets are Pay What You Can at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds!

All funds raised will be split between the poets and the house.

Please RSVP to reserve a seat as there is limited space available: hello@westendphoenix.com !