Today in the PCRS Diana Manole reading her poem “Teaching CanLit” that just SLAYED the crowd at the issue 5.1 launch.
Diana Manole is a Romanian-Canadian scholar, writer, literary translator, and author of nine collections of poems, short prose, and drama in her home country. The winner of the 2020 Very Small Verse Contest of the League of Canadian Poets, her poetry has been published in the UK, the US, Belarus, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, Albania, China, Romania, and Canada. Her poetry book, Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God, is forthcoming from Grey Borders Books and can be pre-ordered online. Holding a doctorate from the University of Toronto, Diana teaches theatre, literature, and creative writing at universities in Ontario.
Watch Diana read this poem and read it for yourself below!
Today in the PCRS, Jason Paradiso reads three poems from past issues of untethered. “Ain’t no love in the Heart of the City” from vol. 1.2, “on a dreary stretch of Interstate 95” from vol. 2.2 and “We only have so many years for bedtime stories” from vol. 4.2.
Jason Paradiso is an editor/poet/writer/artist. He continues to work on his poetry project, Cut Lines & Pulled Quotes, created with rearranged clippings from dated magazines. They have appeared in a variety of publications. @jason.paradiso
Watch/ hear Jason read these poems or read them for yourself below!
Today in PCRS, Isa C. Luasas reading three untitled poems from untethered vol. 3.2 (one of them in French!)
C. Isa Lausas is a multidisciplinary poet, from Lapland, Finland, who grew up between two different worlds : Lapland forests and northern neighbourhoods of Marseille. After a three continent journey she settled in Montreal, where she writes experimental poetry and short stories, studies horticulture, does guerilla gardening and dances.
Lausas studied at ESBAM, the Academy of Fine-Arts of Marseille and has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Saskatchewan. She has published collections of poetry, (On That Border, Art-Arc Books, 2012 and I/Exi[s]t – Exit/I, JackPine Press, 2014), and has been featured in anthologies (Where the nights are twice as long, Goose Lane editions, 2015) and magazines including untethered, (parenthetical), Cordite and Poetry is Dead.@iza.str4nger
Hear Isa read these poems in the video and/or read them for yourself below!
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