COLLAGE EXHIBIT

April 1 – April 30, 2010
Rainbow Market Square Gallery (Toronto)
Located inside the Rainbow Cinema (free)
Twelve of my collage prints will be on show and available for purchase:
80 Front Street East between Church and Jarvis

SONNETS PUBLICATION

February 2010
Shearsman Books (Exeter, U.K.)
Sonnets will be distributed in Canada, the UK, and the US.
The Shearsman Books web page for Sonnets

2010 LAUNCH AND READING TOUR FOR SONNETS:

CANADA

Please note that my reading and booksigning at Nicholas Hoare Books in Toronto, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 24, has been postponed.

Ottawa: TBA soon

UK, IRELAND, PARIS

7:30 pm, Tuesday, May 4
Shearsman Reading Series
Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London

Thursday, May 6
Reading series in Bangor, Wales
Details TBA

8:00 pm, Saturday, May 8
PoAttic Reading Series
Jersey Opera House (ok, not the actual opera stage, but a room in the opera house called the “Attic” where Nathan Thompson says the phantoms live.)
St. Helier, Jersey, U.K.

8:30 pm, Monday, May 10
Ó Bhéal Reading Series
The Long Valley (upstairs)
Cork, Ireland

6:00 – 8:00 pm, Tuesday, May 11
University of Salford
Reading and two-hour session with students in the MA in Creative Writing program

Tuesday, May 18
Ivy Writers Reading Series
Le Next
17 rue Tiqutonne, Paris

Tuesday, 8:00 pm, February 23
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
86 Nassau Street (Kensington Market)
Toronto, Ontario
Also reading: Fred Wah

Sunday, March 7
LiT LiVe Reading Series
Sky Dragon Centre
27 King William Street
Hamilton, Ontario

Thursday, March 25
Open Text Reading Series
Capilano University
Vancouver, BC
Details TBA

Friday, March 26
Kootenay School of Writing
Camille Martin and Ray Hsu
W2 Perel Gallery
Vancouver, BC

 COLLABORATIVE CONCERT

Friday, August 29, and Saturday, August 30, at 8:00 pm
Figure of Speech: summer nights of poetry, dance, and live music in an urban garden in Queen West West

I’ll be performing with a baroque guitarist and lutenist, and a kathak/modern dancer.

163 Walnut Avenue / Toronto (from Queen Street West, turn south on Walnut Avenue, just east of Trinity-Bellwoods Park)

Admission: $15

COLLAGE EXHIBIT

Show dates: Saturday, August 15, – September 6, 2009
Artists Reception: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 7 pm
Gallery Hours: Th – Sa 12-6 pm / Su 1-5 pm
Square Foot Show (Toronto)
Three of my collage prints will be on show and available for purchase:
100A Ossington Avenue, Toronto (a few blocks north of AWOL Gallery, the show’s organizer)

RADIO INTERVIEW

5:30 – 6:00 pm EST, Sunday, May 10, 2009
To be interviewed by John Herbert Cunningham on CKUW 95.9 FM (Winnipeg)

POETRY READINGS

8:00 pm, Friday, February 6, 2009
Toronto: Launch of Misunderstandings Magazine 11
Cerevejaria / 842 College Street (near Ossington)
I’ll read from “The Evangeline Papers,” an excerpt of which Misunderstandings Magazine is publishing. This work is based on my Cajun/Acadian heritage and on my recent visit to Nova Scotia to participate in an archaeological dig at Beaubassin and to research Acadian and Mik’maq history and culture.

Saturday, May 6, 2009 (time TBA)
Toronto: The Pivot Series at the Press Club
850 Dundas Street West

7:00 pm, Thursday, October 8, 2008
Montreal: The Atwater Reading Series
Atwater Library / 1200 Atwater Ave.
Westmount, Québec

8:00 pm, Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Halifax: The Shoestring Reading Series
The Economy Shoe Shop
1663 Argyle Sreet / Halilfax, NS

7:00 pm, Friday, July 11, 2008
Toronto: The Scream Literary Festival
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street
Featured readers: Camille Martin, Harmony Rice, Monica Rosas

WORKSHOP

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Workshop: The Poetry of Borrowed Words
12-5 pm (with breaks)
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
483 Church Street near Maitland (enter the door to the right of the bookstore and go upstairs)
DESCRIPTION: Every day, you’re surrounded by words, from advertising to reality shows; from neon signs to instruction manuals. Why not use these words in your poetry? Borrowing from other texts to create poetry that’s uniquely yours is a fun way to jump-start your imagination. And it has a venerable tradition – medieval poets cribbed from Homer to write their Life of Christ!

In this workshop, we’ll examine ways in which poets incorporate found words into their poems. You’ll get lots of opportunity to try some of these processes. We’ll pillage many different kinds of texts -cookbooks, advertisements, pulp fiction, dictionaries of clichés, TV guides, travel guides, weather reports, and poems by other poets – even very famous poets. This is your chance to have your way with Shakespeare!

You’ll leave the workshop with new poems and fresh inspiration. Beginning and experienced poets are welcome!

REGISTRATION: Call (416) 929-9912 (This Ain’t the Rosedale Library) to sign up. $60 includes materials and light refreshments.

CAMILLE MARTIN is a poet and collage artist whose collection Codes of Public Sleep recently appeared from BookThug (2007). She has also published several chapbooks. Recent work is published or forthcoming in journals such as The Literary Review of Canada, The Walrus, West Coast Line, PRECIPICe, Rampike, This Magazine, W Magazine, Peter O’Toole, and The Chicago Review. Her current project is a book of edgy sonnets. She earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. She teaches at Ryerson University. She is an experienced workshop facilitator, having taught this workshop and similar ones numerous times to both high school students and adults.

POETRY READINGS

Saturday, December 29, 2007, 2-4 pm
New York City: The Bowery Poetry Club
BookThug Book Party featuring Cara Benson, Greg Betts, Jason Dickson, Evan Kennedy, Camille Martin, Jay MillAr, Gregory Pardlo

Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 8:00 pm
Ottawa: Tree Reading Series
Royal Oak II Pub
Featured reader: Camille Martin
A review of my Ottawa reading on Amanda Earl’s blog

Friday, 8 February 2008, 7:30 pm
St. Catharines: The Grey Borders Reading Series
Strega Cafe / 19 King Street
Featured readers: Aaron Giovannone, Sharon Harris, Geoffrey Hlibchuk, and Camille Martin

Friday, February 15, 2008, 8:00 pm
Toronto: Test Reading Series
Mercer Union / 27 Lisgar Street
Featured readers: Susan Holbrook and Camille Martin

Sunday, March 2, 2008, 7:30 pm
Hamilton: LiT LiVe
Sky Dragon Centre / 27 King William Street
Featured readers: Camille Martin and others (TBA)