events: WOTS, ryerson, nuit blanche

WORD ON THE STREET
Sunday, September 24, 11am-6pm
Queen's Park, Toronto

• 11:30am: I'm participating in the young adult tent's teen-publishing panel.
• 1:30pm: I'll read from Wide slumber for lepidopterists in the Great Books Marquee.
• 5pm: I'm sitting on the "Ask an Author" panel with Ray Robertson and Ken Alexander.
  

RYERSON POETRY SERIES
Thursday, September 28, 7:30pm
Oakham House, 63 Gould St., Room 34B, Toronto

• I'll read Wide slumber. The fantastic Sandra Alland (Proof of a tongue, McGilligan Books) will read from her forthcoming collection, Blissful Times.

NUIT BLANCHE
Sunday, October 1, 1-2am
University of Toronto, School of Continuing Education, 158 St. George St., Toronto

• Join Theatre Commutiny for a late-night meditation on all things lepidopteral and somnambulant.
• Of this event, organizer Margaret Christakos writes, "Ah hoosh a ha. Flock to SCS for a once-in-a-blue-moon group sound poetry performance by a.rawlings based on her new book Wide slumber for lepidopterists, a gorgeous and innovative text rawlings composed over many years in answer to the question, 'What happens when you breed the vocabularies and ideas of two disparate subjects – lepidoptery and sleep/dream studies? What does the spawn of incompatible bedfellows resemble?” From that perverse breeding, Wide slumber for lepidopterists flutters to us with arresting and truly enchanting images of the self and voice attaining cocoon-busting presence.'"