Carmine Starnino
Carmine Starnino has published three volumes of poetry for which he has won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the A.M.Klein Award, and the F.G.Bressani Prize. He was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His most recent collection is With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press). He is the author of A Lover's Quarrel (Porcupine's Quill), a collection of essays on Canadian poetry. He is the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Vehicule Press). He is editor for the Signal Editions poetry series and an associate editor for Books in Canada.

George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, editor, playwright, literary critic, and a professor of English at the University of Toronto. He joins print and oral poetry in his work. He received the Governor General's Award for Execution Poems (Gaspereau Press). His book, Whylah Falls (Polestar) won the Archibald Lampman Award. He wrote the libretto for his verse-play Beatrice Chancy (Polestar). His most recent poetry book is Quebecite (Gaspereau Press). He has been honoured with the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award.

If you’re looking to get some sun, head down to the patio at Clinton’s Tavern in the early afternoon when the sun hits all the right spots. You can watch the action on Bloor Street while enjoying some Chinese food or cheap pub grub and a cold one.

Monday to Friday they offer a burger and fries combo for $5.95. The patio seats about 60.

A Toronto tavern tradition on the corner of Bloor and Clinton, this venue has helped launch such groups as the Cowboy Junkies, Lowest of the Low, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and many others. Clinton's is now undergoing something of a renaissance, with regular live gigs after a couple years of spotty scheduling.