forthcoming
2024
May 16 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Cameron Anstee / Authors Unbound / 6:30pm / The Spaniel’s Tale / 1131 Wellingston St. W / Ottawa, ON
May 30 / Real Vancouver Writers’ Series / 7pm / Russian Hall / 600 Campbell Ave / Vancouver, BC
June 4 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Ryanne Kap and Kyle Flemmer / 7pm / Shelf Life Books / 1302 4th St SW / Calgary, AB
June 5 – 7 / SpokenWeb Symposium – Sounding the Futures: Listening Across Time and Space / Performance: Listening in Many Publics, with field recordings and cassette tapes / Calgary, AB
June 12 – 14 / ACCUTE Conference at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences / Panel Chair: “Systems Thinking and/in Literature” / Montreal, QC
June 17 / Art Bar Poetry Series / 7pm / The Free Times Café / 320 College St / Toronto, ON
June 27 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Kasia Van Schaik and Ashley Obscura / 6:30pm / Librairie Saint-Henri Books / 4622 rue Notre-Dame / Montreal, QC
August 10 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Zoe Tuck / 7pm / Unnameable Books / 66 Avenue A / Turners Falls, MA
August 13 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Eric Schmaltz / 7pm / Trident Booksellers & Cafe / 1256 Hollis St. / Halifax, NS
August 16 / Listening in Many Publics Launch, with Fawn Parker and Rebecca Salazar / 7pm / Westminster Bookmark / 88 York St. / Fredericton, NB
August 21 / Riverbed Reading Series / 7:30pm / Club SAW / 67 Nicholas St / Ottawa, ON
past
2024
April 19 / Invisible Publishing Spring 2024 Launch / 7pm / Society Clubhouse / 967 College St / Toronto, ON
March 14 – 17 / ACLA / Panel: “Warring with Infrastructure: Critical Reflections on Building and Collapse” / Paper: “The Sociogenic Principle and Dionne Brand’s No Language Is Neutral: Listening as Infrastructure for Critical Alterity” / Montreal, QC
March 14 / Montreal Review of Books Spring 2024 Issue Launch / Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival / 5:30pm / Hotel 10 / 10 Sherbrooke St. W / Montreal, QC
March 7 – 10 / NeMLA / Seminar: “Insignificant Notations: Thinking Surplus with the New York School” / Paper: “Exceeding the Textual Frame: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory Online and in Performance” / Boston, MA
March 7 – 10 / NeMLA / Roundtable: “Surplus in African and African Diasporic Literature” / Paper: “The Sociogenic Potenial of ahdri zhina mandiela’s Intermedial Poetics” / Boston, MA
2023
May 27 – 30 / ACCUTE Conference at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences / Panel: “Keeping up with the Quotidian: Auto-Criticism in Practice” / Paper: “Bernadette Mayer’s Memory and the Interstices of Everyday Life: Autotheory in Practice” / York University / Toronto, ON
2022
October 31 / Halloween Book Launch: We Have Never Lived on Earth / 6pm / De Stiil Books / 351 Duluth E / Montreal, QC
March 18 / Université de Sherbrooke Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Canadian Literature: “At the Crossroads: Intermediality as a Meeting Point” / Panel: “Hybridation et coexistence des médias” / Paper: “Improvisation and Intermediality in the Vehicule Poets” / Sherbrooke University / Online
2021
September 11 / tanthem: La Nuit de l’Art – Rebond / 8pm – 10pm / De Stiil Books / 351 Duluth E / Montreal, QC
August 6 / Swimsuit Moon: A Reading en plein aire / 7:30pm / Parc Beaubien / Outremont, QC
2020
November 11 / Revolutionary Letters | A Diana Di Prima Marathon Reading / 8pm / Google Meet
February 28 / Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference: “Reimagining Space” / Panel: “Utopia and No-Places” / Paper: “Citizens of Utopia: Decolonizing the American Sonnet” / Stony Brook University / Stony Brook, NY
2019
November 7 / Creative Writing Instructors Reading / 8pm / Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts Amherst / 144 Hicks Way / Amherst, MA
July 24 – 28 / Newmarket National 10-minute Play Festival / Viola, co-written with Henrika Larochelle / Directed by Zachary Arndt / Newmarket Old Town Hall / 460 Botsford Street / Newmarket, ON
July 10 / b l u s h / 8pm / The Root Cellar / 10 Fiske Ave / Greenfield, MA
2018
October 12 / Metatron @ Babycastles / 7pm / Babycastles / 145 W 14th St. / New York, NY
May 23 / A Night of Readings / 7pm / Librairie D&Q / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
February 14 / Dead Bird #4 / 7pm / Iconica Social Club / 1 Amber Lane / Northampton, MA
2017
December 15 / Peach Mag & The Public Present: Blue Christmas / 7pm / Free Agent / 704 Main St. / Buffalo, NY
November 16 / Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie Book Launch / 5pm / The Green Room / 28 Center St. / Northampton, MA
November 10 / LIVE LIT: Archibald, Foley, Itzi, Ritchie / 7pm / Amherst Books / 8 Main St. / Amherst, MA
October 11 / Coach House Fall Poetry Launch / 7pm / La Vitrola / 4662 St. Laurent / Montreal, QC
October 5 / Coach House Fall Launch / 7:30pm / Buddies in Bad Times Theatre / 12 Alexander St. / Toronto, ON
September 18 / Cosmonauts Avenue Reading / 7:30pm / Sevenstrong / 7 Strong Ave / Northampton, MA
July 29 / Bad Nudes 2.3 Launch / 8pm / Space Geneviève / Montreal, QC
May 5 / Marathon littéraire du Devoir / 7:30pm / Le Devoir / 1265 Berri / Montreal, QC
April 29 / Authors for Indies / 1:30pm / The Word Bookstore / 469 Milton St. / Montreal, QC
April 28 / CBC Homerun / 3:20pm / 88.5 FM
April 21 / 30 Under 30 Poetry Reading / 7pm / Librairie D&Q / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
March 31 / Metatron at Knife Fork Book / 7pm / Knife Fork Book in Rick’s Café / 281 Augusta Ave / Toronto, ON
March 8 / Épique Voices / 7pm / La Vitrola / 4662 St. Laurent / Montreal, QC
February 18 / Party Dinosaur No. 11 / 8pm / 3713 St. Laurent, #202 / Montreal, QC
February 4 / Bad Nudes 2.1 Launch / 8pm / Brasserie Beaubien / 73 Beaubien E / Montreal, QC
January 27 / Metatron x The 4 Poets Reading: Hello Future / 8pm / La Vitrola / 4662 St. Laurent / Montreal, QC
January 6 / Word Night / 8pm / Psychic City / 3655 St. Laurent / Montreal, QC
January 3 / CBC Daybreak / 6:40am / 88.5 FM
2016
November 8 / Light Reading 0.5 / 8:30pm / 5555 de Gaspé, Studio 309 / Montreal, QC
November 7 / Vallum Magazine and Chapbook Launch / 7pm / The Emerald / 5295 Parc Ave. / Montreal, QC
October 13 / Writers Out Loud Presents / 7pm / Librairie D&Q / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
September 29 / Cool Skull x Metatron / 8pm / 12 Thorpe St. / Somerville, MA
August 23 / Crying on the Inside: Poetry & Fiction / 7pm / The Mammal Gallery / 91 Broad St. SW / Atlanta, GA
June 7 / Résonance Reading Series / 8:30pm / Résonance Café / 5175A Parc Ave. / Montreal, QC
June 1 / Turbo Talks No. 4: “How to Publish Books in the 31st Century” / 6:30pm / Turbo Haus / 5011 Notre Dame Ouest / Montreal, QC
May 29 / Metatron Spring 2k16 Launch / 7pm / Pressed / 750 Gladstone Ave. / Ottawa, ON
May 28 / A Night of Readings x Metatron / 8pm / 8-11 / 233 Spadina Ave. / Toronto, ON
May 7 / Vallum: Contemporary Poetry Pop-up Shop / 3pm / Chez Boris / 5151 Parc Ave. / Montreal, QC
April 30 / Authors for Indies at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly / 2pm / Librairie D&Q / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
March 5 / Amber Tamblyn reads Dark Sparkler / 7pm / Librairie D&Q / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
February 4 / This Is Not a Safe Space / 8pm / In front of the Eaton Centre / 705 St. Catherine St. W / Montreal, QC
2015
November 19 / Soliloquies Reads / 8pm / Kafein / 1429A Bishop St. / Montreal, QC
October 27 / Vallum Magazine Launch: Humour / 7pm / The Brass Door Pub / 2171 Crescent / Montreal, QC
October 24 / Teen Surf Goth Book Launch / 8pm / Molasses Books / 770 Hart St. / Brooklyn, NY
October 23 / Metatron @ Alt Space / 7:30pm / Alt Space / 41 Montrose Ave. / Brooklyn, NY
October 18 / Metatron Fall 2015 Launch / 7pm / Type Books / 883 Queen St. W / Toronto, ON
October 17 / A Night of Readings / 8pm / 8-11 / 233 Spadina Ave. / Toronto, ON
September 8 / Poetry Night 51 @ Kafein x Metatron / 8pm / Kafein / 1429A Bishop St. / Montreal, QC
July 25 / Shout Out To My Family And Friends / 7pm / Drawn & Quarterly / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
May 6 / Résonance Reading Series: Translations / 8:30pm / Résonance Café / 5175A Ave. du Parc / Montreal, QC
April 30 / Atwater Writers Exhibition / 7pm / Atwater Library / 1200 Atwater Ave, Westmount, QC
April 25 / Blue Metropolis Festival: Vallum Magazine Launch / 9pm / Le Jardin (Hôtel 10) / 10 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC
March 19 / Argo Featured Reading #27 / 7pm / Argo Bookshop / 1915 St-Catherine West / Montreal, QC
January 8 / Jay Ritchie + Nikki Reimer = ! / 7pm / Shelf Life Books / 1302-4th St. SW / Calgary, AB
2014
September 10 / Something You Were, Might Have Been, or Have Come to Represent Book Launch / 7pm / Drawn & Quarterly / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
July 18 / SLS Lithuania / 7pm / Užupio Kavinė / Užupio g. 2 / Vilnius, Lithuania
July 3 / Montreal Lit Night In Toronto / 8pm / The Ossington / 61 Ossington Ave. / Toronto, ON
June 13 / Metatron re-Launch / 7pm / Drawn & Quarterly / 211 Bernard West / Montreal, QC
May 17 / Japes and Other Fripperies / 7pm / Kafein / 1429A Bishop St. / Montreal, QC
April 27 / LitPop / 8:30pm / Sparrow / 5322 St. Laurent Blvd. / Montreal, QC
April 26 / Metatron Graduation / 3pm / Arbutus Records HQ / Montreal, QC
April 22 / Kafein Poetry Night 21 / 8pm / Kafein / 1429A Bishop St. / Montreal, QC
March 5 / Résonance Reading Series 12 / 9pm / Résonance Café / 5175A Parc Ave. / Montreal, QC
March 2 / Metatron Launch / 8pm / Bain St. Michel / 5300 rue St. Dominique / Montreal, QC
2013
September 6 / The Birth of Metatron / 10pm / Metatron HQ / 5555 de Gaspé / Montreal, QC
June 14 / This Is Happening Whether You Like It Or Not 5×5 / 10pm / Metatron HQ / 5555 de Gaspé / Montreal, QC
May 9 / Soliloquies 17 Launch / 7:30pm / Kafein / 1429A Bishop / Montreal, QC
May 6 / Scrivener Creative Review 38 Launch / 7:30pm / Espace Pop / 5587 Parc Ave. / Montreal, QC
April 4 / Off the Page Multimedia Literary Arts Gala / 5pm / VAV Gallery / 1395 Réné Lévesque Blvd. / Montreal, QC
2012
December 1 / The Void: Portraits Launch / 9pm / Il Motore / 179 Jean Talon West / Montreal, QC
November 22 / This Is Happening Whether You Like It Or Not Marathon / 9:30pm / 1208 Lajoie / Outremont, QC
October 28 / The Pilot / 8pm / Sparrow / 5322 St. Laurent Blvd. / Montreal, QC
2011
November 4 / The Void: How Could This Happen? Launch / 8pm / La Plante / Montreal, QC
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