readings

Figured I would pimp the Stranger's new books page. They hired a books editor a few months ago and now collect all their book reviews, blog postings, as well as recommended book readings in one place. Awesome resource for the reader in America's #1 most literate city (we want a recount, Minneapolis).

Toronto is giving poetry readings for the homeless. Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, the aim of the reading series is to bring “culture to a segment of society without the means to attend concerts or other ticketed events.” The event was open to the public, but the Queen and Bathurst area is not exactly an inviting neighbourhood. Interesting idea, though.

After expounding the benefits of poetry readings, this poet says we should just read the poems ourselves. Well, I don’t think he understands his audience very well.

There’s something about hearing the written word spoken aloud by those who wrote it. Recordings of renowned poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Lord Tennyson and Seamus Heaney, offer us a chance to really become star-struck.