11/16/2024
We are so pleased to once again be partnering with & to celebrate the launch of Jim Johnstone’s new book, Bait and Switch. Please join us on Thursday, November 21 at 7pm to hear readings from Johnstone’s new book (along with poetry from The King of Terrors), Melissa Schnarr, and Pujita Verma (.co) 📚 We look forward to seeing you all there! 🎉
Poet Bios:
Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023), and is also the author of Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024), and Write, Print, Fold and Staple: On Poetry and Micropress in Canada (Gaspereau Press, 2023). Johnstone is the founder of the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press, where he recently published The Anstruther Reader: Ten Years of Poems, Broadsides, and Manifestos.
Melissa Schnarr is Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka from Bkejwanong Territory (Walpole Island First Nation), with family ties in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Her work has appeared in the Temz Review, TNQ, the Windsor Review, Luna Station Quarterly and Yellow Medicine Review. Her first poetry chapbook, Secondhand Moccasins, was published in 2023 by Anstruther Press and shortlisted for the 2024 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
Pujita Verma is an Indo-Canadian poet and illustrator. Her work has appeared across the Toronto Transit Commission, on CBC’s The National, in FreeFall Magazine, Poetry Pause, and more. She won the 2024 Toronto Arts and Letters Club Foundation Poetry Award and the 2023 League of Canadian Poets National Broadsheet Contest. Pujita was Mississauga’s second Youth Poet Laureate and is currently the Youth Outreach Representative for Antler River Poetry.
