This Is Not A Reading Series event with Toronto's Poet Laureate!
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 8:00pm
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Ballroom
Toronto, ON
M6J 1J6
Acclaimed NOW journalist and essayist Susan G. Cole interviews Toronto Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke.
Accompanying the talk will be a 30 minute staged performance highlighting the beauty of Illicit Sonnets. Theatre director, writer and academic Diana Manole will be staging a theatrical performance of Illicit Sonnets, Clarke's new erotic poetry with choreography and music selections by Keith Macfarlane featuring Payge Mildebrath.
This evening with George Elliott Clarke is the inaugural event of This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS), a literary programme celebrating its 10th anniversary this season. Marc Glassman, the Artistic Director of TINARS says, "Our mandate remains the same, to investigate the creative process of writers: who they are and why they make their work."
Admission is $5 or FREE if you buy the book.
Doors open at 7:30pm, event starts at 8:00pm.