Brockton Wrters Series 5

Join us Tuesday February 2, 7-9pm at Zoots Cafe, 1438 Dundas Street West, to hear readings by:

Carey Toane
teenah edan
monica rosas

Carey Toane is a Toronto-based journalist and poet who has lived in Alberta, Finland, and the Middle East. She spends her spare time editing her grandmother's journals, translating poems from Finnish, and investigating the social histories of domesticated plants and animals. She is the grants coordinator of the 2009 Scream Literary Festival in Toronto, where she is also the host of the reading series Pivot at the Press Club. Her poems have been published in CV2, This Magazine and Peter O'Toole: A magazine of one-line poems. Her chapbook, Ministry of the Environment, was released in 2008 on Bench Press.

teenah edan is a literary curator and writer. Her work has been published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto and has appeared in a number of literary installations across the city, including the ARCFest Human Rights Festival, Doors Open Toronto and most recently as part of the Public Realm exhibit at The Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts. In May 2009, she was a finalist in the Toronto Arts Council Foundation's Get Lit! Competition.

LA LOBA - mónica rosas is an educator/agitator/artist whose work aims to challenge and provoke community discussion on gender, the environment and the visible minority experience. A second-generation Colombian-Peruvian, Canadian she grew up in Ontario’s one and only city of steel, Hamilton. She has since traveled and worked in Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil and Toronto writing and teaching English and Drama. mónica is the author of Inside Out a collection of poetry published by Lyrical Myrical. She is the curator of Cha Cha, a yearly women's literary event in Toronto on the topic of sexuality and she is working on her first novel entitled, Salt Water & Cinammon Skin with Tightrope Books. Visit her @ www.monicarosas.com

There will also be a 15 minute open mic session at the end. Please sign up at 6:50pm for this. There will be three 5 minute spots.

Free! Books, drinks and other goodies available for sale. Lots of time for neighbourly chat.

If you a writer who lives, works, hangs out in the Brockton area (loosely defined as the West Toronto neighbourhood bordered by Lansdowne, College, Queen and Gladstone--but we're flex about geography), contact farzanadoctor@rogers.com to be included in a future event.

All genres, experience level, ages, styles etc welcome!