Spend your Valentines Day eve, February 13, with us for Poetry At The Phoenix
Our poets for this month: Linda Besner and A. F. Moritz!
Linda Besner’s second poetry collection, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Award. Her first book, The Id Kid, was named as one of the National Post’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Review, and her award-winning nonfiction has appeared in The Guardian, the Atlantic, and The Globe & Mail. She has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and was selected as one of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s best emerging artists. Her work has been anthologized in The Next Wave: 21st Century Canadian Poetry, What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, and Best Canadian Poetry 2012.
A. F. Moritz’s most recent books of poems are The Garden: a poem and an essay (2021), As Far As You Know (2020), and The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018). His book forthcoming in spring 2024 is entitled Great Silent Ballad. He has published 20 books of poems and his poetry has received various recognitions: among others, the Guggenheim Fellowship; inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets; the Ingram Merrill Fellowship; the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Beth Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine; the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Prize of the Southwest Review; the ReLit Award; the Griffin Poetry Prize; the Raymond Souster Award of the League of Canadian Poets, selection to the Colleción Legítima Defensa of the Universidad Autónomo de Zacatecas (Mexico; distinguished foreign authors in translation); etc. He is a three-time finalist for the Governor General’s Award for English language poetry, for his books Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1999), The Sentinel (2008) and The New Measures (2012); his book As Far As You Know (2020 was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award. In January 2019 he was selected poet laureate of the City of Toronto and served in that role until May 2023.
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!
Show starts at 7 PM, 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 !