The Scream presents AN EVENING OF URBAN FINDINGS. Bring your missing turtles and St Christopher medals to The Embassy, 223 Augusta Avenue July 6, 2006  for all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. For more information and detailed directions, click here.

At 8pm, join in a reception for Eye Scream IV: Paint the Town READ.  

Paint The Town READ is an innovative exhibition of urban pictographs and petroglyphs that includes photographs and examples of urban sculpture, graffiti, stencils, wheat pastes, and posters. The art is mostly from Toronto (with a little bit of NYC and The Canadian Shield thrown in for good measure).  Thirteen artists: Dan Waber, Michael Tweed, The Toronto Decorating Committee, Rocky Tobey, David Owen, Jeremy McLeod, Joy Learn, Beth Learn, I See Love Collective, I Love You (NYC), Beverly Wooding, Sandra Alland, Anonymous.  Curated by Sharon Harris.  Because the exhibition is a proud part of The Scream Literary Festival, all works in the show contain textual elements.

Some Eye Scream Highlights:

• Seven works from Rocky Tobey, who has installed thousands of pieces of art around Toronto since the early seventies.  His identity was a mystery until 2002, when Edward Keenan of eye weekly broke the story, "Unmasked at Last".

The Box invites you to an evening of readings, performance, tableau, film and music by: Brian Fawcett, Heather Frise, Amy Lam and Zeesy Powers, Maria Legault with Greg Walloch, Permafrown, Metanet Software, Ken Sparling and Scott Treleaven. We hope to see you there at 8 pm on Wednesday, June 28 at the Rivoli, 332 Queen W. Hosted by Louise Bak

The Box is a quarterly salon night of readings, performances, screenings, interventions and networking that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social intermingling.

Brian Fawcett was born in Prince George, B.C., Canada in 1944. He worked as a community organizer and urban planner in Greater Vancouver until 1985, and then taught in maximum security federal prisons for six years. He also had a short career as a professional hockey player, but now writes full time. He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe & Mail, past chair of the Writers Union of Canada’s Free Trade and Charter 94 Committees and has written articles and reviews for most of Canada’s major newspapers and magazines. He is a founding editor of the internationally-followed Internet news service, www.dooneyscafe.com, and has lived in Toronto since 1991. His most recent books are Virtual Clearcut: Or, The Way Things Are In My Home Town, and Local Matters: A Defense of Dooney’s Café and Other Non-globalized Places, People and Ideas, both published in 2003. Virtual Clearcut won the 2004 Pearson Prize for non-fiction and was called “one of the best non-fiction books to ever come out of this country.” by Toronto’s Now Magazine. He hasn’t published poetry since 1983.

Devin Johnston writes in to announce the publication of William Fuller's Watchword from Flood Editions. To order with free shipping, click here.

In Watchword, Fuller plots the paths of consciousness with sensitivity and precision. Pivoting on what he has elsewhere called "transfer points almost too elusive to name," his poems shift—sometimes mid-word—between languages of commerce, the natural sciences, and seventeenth-century Neoplatonism (among others). Such moments of exchange elicit both wonder and horror; what emerges is a marriage of heaven and hell.
Chris Emery has commented on Fuller's recent poetry, "This is clearly a new metaphysical writing, sensual and transfiguring."

Established in 2001, Flood Editions is an independent press for poetry and short fiction based in Chicago. They publish four titles each year, including first books, volumes by established writers, and reprints. All our books are finely designed, smythe-sewn paperbacks.

Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Ed Roberson & April DeNonno at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm. For readings and more information, click here.

Ed Roberson, teacher and former aquarium worker in Pittsburgh, has a new book, City Eclogue, from Atelos Press. Earlier books include Lucid Interval as Integral Music; Atmosphere Conditions (Sun & Moon); Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In (winner of the 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize); and Just In/Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Poems (Talisman Books). Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Review of City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006) from Publishers Weekly:

"Alternately detailed and abstract, calmly attentive and angry about bad news, this set of short lyrics from Roberson (Atmospheric Conditions) describes urban verticality ('buildings/ modulate the blocks// upwards/ the city a sky of floors') and zeroes in on the New York metropolitan area in particular. His depictions include the detritus of so-called urban renewal, 'From the project slabs leveled/ to the poor pride-kept and neat/ stands of/ old houses mowed down.' They include, too, the sounds of black America, from 'the street-talk birdcall of sucked teeth' to the disorienting jazz of Thelonious Monk. Lines like 'Adventure somehow decides to bypass all the already,' announces a modernist aesthetic which finds the basis for poetry anywhere. But however abstract he gets, Roberson never loses his sense of a personal voice, of a man talking (to himself or others) about the space in which we might try to live."

April DeNonno teaches contemporary literature, film, and cultural studies at Cornish College. Recent poems have appeared in the literary magazines Monkey Puzzle, Facture, and Fine Madness.

For info on these & other Subtext events, see the website. Subtext events are co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

TORONTO. From Griffin shortlister Erin Moure to hip-hop impresario Mindbender, this year’s Scream in High Park features an outstanding lineup of readers, covering the spectrum of today’s best Canadian writing. Now in its 14th year, the July 10 High Park event is the largest single-night outdoor poetry reading in Canada. It is the culmination of the Scream Literary Festival, which runs from July 4–10, at venues across Toronto.

As always, the 2006 lineup is notable for the diversity of its 12 readers– in age, form, achievement, and approach. Once again, the Scream features some of this country’s most recognized literary luminaries as well as some new voices to the scene.