span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
The Factory Reading Series
pre-small press book fair reading
featuring readings by:
Elisha May Rubacha (Peterborough)
Sarah MacDonell (Ottawa)
Justin Million (Peterborough)
and Jason Christie (Ottawa)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Friday, June 23, 2017;
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern,
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)
[And don’t forget the ottawa small press book fair, held the following day at the Jack Purcell Community Centre]Elisha May Rubacha [pictured] lives, writes, and gardens in Peterborough, ON. She is the editor and designer of
bird, buried press and the co-curator of
the Show and Tell Poetry Series. Her work has been published by
Bywords, Puddles of Sky Press,
The Steel Chisel, and
Skirt Quarterly, and she was shortlisted for the
PRISM International Creative Non-fiction Contest in 2016.
If you work in the arts,
Sarah MacDonell would like you to hire her. A 2017 Tree Reading Series Hot Ottawa Voice, AOE Young Artist Mentee, and youth board member of the OAG’s dépArt, Sarah has performed at Slackline Creative Series, Sawdust Reading Series, CSA rout/e, and the
ottawater launch. Her first chapbook,
The Lithium Body, came out in January with In/Words. You can find her poems online and posted outside of McCarthy Park.
Justin Million is a poet living, working, writing, and curating art happenings in downtown Peterborough, ON. Million has published 19 poetry chapbooks, with presses such as Apt. 9 Press, and bird, buried press, and has been featured in literary magazines such as
Word and Colour,
Poetry Is Dead, and
ottawater. Million is also the curator of the
Show and Tell Poetry Series in Peterborough, ON, is the Poetry Editor for
bird, buried press, also located in Peterborough, ON, and features every month with his Smith-Corona Electra 110 at KEYBOARDS!, Peterborough’s only live-writing poetry show.
Jason Christie is the author of
Canada Post (Snare),
i-ROBOT (Edge/Tesseract),
Unknown Actor (Insomniac), and a co-editor of
Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury). He has five chapbooks from above/ground press:
8th Ave 15th Street NW (2004),
GOVERNMENT (2013),
Cursed Objects (2014),
The Charm (2015),
random_lines = random.choice (2017). He is currently writing poetry about (being) objects, and exaltation.
