PCRS: Part Three

This segment of the PCRS features wonderful readings from past contributors Amy LeBlanc, Cassidy McFadzean, Deborah Ocholi, Trevor Abes, Christine Ottoni and Victoria Butler.

Amy LeBlanc

reading “Three Summers” (Vol. 3.2)

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Today in PCRS, Amy LeBlanc reading her poem “Three Summers”  from untethered vol. 3.2 Amy LeBlanc is an MA student in English Literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary and Managing Editor at filling Station magazine. Amy's debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, was published with Gordon Hill Press in March 2020. Her novella "Unlocking" will be published by the UCalgary Press in their Brave and Brilliant Series in 2021. Her work has appeared in Room, PRISM International, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. She is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. @amylia_leblanc Read this piece in the next post! If you missed this issue, you can still grab a copy on our site. Link in bio.

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Cassidy McFadzean

reading “Ghosting” (Vol. 3.2)

Deborah Ocholi

reading “The Sand” (Vol. 5.1)

Trevor Abes

reading “Oh, Just Browsing” (Vol. 2.1)

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Today in PCRS, Trevor Abes reading his poem “Oh, Just Browsing”  from untethered vol. 2.1  Trevor Abes is an artist from Toronto with a fondness for writing essays and poetry. He was part of the winning ensemble at the 2015 SLAMtario Spoken Word Festival, and competed in both the National Poetry Slam and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word as part of the Toronto Poetry Slam team. His work has appeared in Torontoist, (parenthetical), untethered, Sewer Lid, Spacing Magazine, Descant Magazine, The Rusty Toque, The Theatre Reader, Mooney on Theatre, The Toronto Review of Books, Hart House Review, and Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture, among others. His first full-length collection of prose, The New Frontiers Of Conceptual Art, is available through trevorabes.com. Find him on Twitter and here on Instagram @trevorabes Read this piece in the next post! We still have this issue in stock! Check it out on our site! Link in bio. #canlit #readingseries #prosepoetry #virtualpoetry

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Christine Ottoni

reading an excerpt of “Ghost Letting” (Vol. 3.2)

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Today in the PCRS, Christine Ottoni reading an excerpt of her fiction piece “Ghost Letting”  from untethered vol. 3.2   Christine Ottoni is a writer living in Toronto. The story she reads from, “Ghost Letting,” first appeared in untethered Vol. 3.2, and is a cornerstone piece in her collection Cracker Jacks for Misfits, published in 2019 with Exile Editions. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph, where she is working on a novel.  You can find her at christineottoni.com or @chrissiottoni you can find her book, Cracker Jacks for Misfits on the Exile Editions site as well as at Indigo or Amazon. Read an extended excerpt from “Ghost Letting” in the next post and visit our website to read the piece in FULL in our latest PCRS entry! While you're there, why don’t you pick up a copy of this rad issue! Links in bio

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Victoria Butler

reading “august” and “Confessional” (Vol. 3.2)

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