Update: March 21, 2008

compiled by Nathaniel G. Moore

The Malahat Review is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s P. K. Page Founders’ Award for Poetry is Jeff Latosik of Toronto for his poem Cactus Love which appeared in the Winter 2007 issue. Jeff Latosik’s award-winning poem was chosen for this prestigious award by Gary Geddes.

Check out the week-long festivities with dozens of events including authors such as Elizabeth Hay, Rachel Zolf, Elyse Friedman, Sean Dixon, RM Vaughan and Stuart Ross.

The good folks at Toronto’s greatest indie bookstore have a brand new look—online that is. Interviews? Books? Literary profiles? Events listings? Pages Books & Magazines was started in 1979 in an empty storefront on Toronto's Queen St. West.

Toronto literary personality, poet, edit and racketeer Stuart Ross wears a lot of hats. Now somewhere between muse and collaborator, he finds his poetry the subject of musical interpretation via British musican Ben Walker. An Orphan's Song ($15) is a collection of 15 tracks (that’s a dollar per track) composed and recorded by Walker, built around Ross poetry. Songs include "Ladies & Gentlemen, Mr. Ron Padgett," "Invitation to Love," "Road Trip, Southern Ontario, 1999," and "We Got Punched." For more information on the disc, check out Stuart’s blog.

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30 March 2008: The Pilot Reading Series March Edition is presented by Matrix Magazine, the QWF and Pop Montreal and will feature Robert Glück, Gail Scott, Melissa Bull and New York’s J. Mae Barizo. Located at Blizzarts 3956A St. Laurent Montreal, QC.

Wednesday, March 28, 7-9pm at the Brickhouse, 730 Main Street. Artspeak and Arsenal Pulp Press in celebrating the release of Vancouver Art & Economies, edited by Melanie O'Brian, with essays by Clint Burnham, Randy Lee Cutler, Tim Lee, Sadira Rodrigues, Marina Roy, Sharla Sava, Reid Shier, Shepherd Steiner and Michael Turner.

The March 2008 Issue of Eleventh Transmission is now online. Featuring interview and Images with Gord Cummings, Calgary comic producer and creator of the Mercy Seat series, plus poems by Calgary's j.fisher.

Miscellaneous links

• Elyse Friedman
• Rowers Pub Reading Series
• Toronto Noir
• McSweeney’s
• The Calgary Blow-Out