A reminder about the second installment of the Test Reading Series via Mark Truscott.

Margaret Christakos and Brian Joseph Davis on April 26, 7:30 p.m. at the Mercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art, 37 Lisgar Street, Toronto.

Pay-what-you-can ($5 recommended), all of which benefits the readers (Test acknowledges the support of the Toronto Arts Council and the League of Canadian Poets for Margaret Christakos's reading.)

And as if that's not enough, you can thrill to the visual stylings of  Karen Azoulay's the Evening Canopy and the Sunset Hour and Brian Joseph  Davis's new participatory-audio-intervention-slo-jam, Yesterduh.

Brian Joseph Davis is creator of deceptive sound and print projects. He was called a "genius" by Alex Ross of the New Yorker, for turning the writings of philosopher Theodor Adorno into a punk 7-inch. Frieze Magazine deemed the same project "serious hilarity...joyous and thoughtful." Coach House Books recently published Portable Altamont, his first collection of writings, which has garnered praise from Spin Magazine for its "elegant, wise-ass rush of truth [and] hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes." He’s a regular columnist for Eye Weekly and recently wrote about the death of the cassette for the Utne Reader.

Davis has often opened up the authorship of his projects to subversive collaborations. For “Thriller,” he worked with Michael Jackson fans to create better pro-Jackson propaganda, and for “Voice Over,” he composed a narrative text from a list of 5,000 film "taglines," which was read by professional film trailer voiceover artist Scott Taylor.

Margaret Christakos lives in Toronto. Her poetry collections are Sooner (Coach House, 2005), Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House, 2002), which won the ReLit Award, Wipe Under a Love (Mansfield, 2000), The Moment Coming (ECW Press, 1998), Other Words for Grace (Mercury, 1994) and Not Egypt (Coach House, 1989). Her novel Charisma (Pedlar Press, 2000) was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Award. In 2004–2005 she held a Canada Council writer's residency at the University of Windsor. A new chapbook, Adult Video, has been published by Nomados Editions. In her recent collection, Sooner, a wide range of short poetic fragments and longer, narrative poems negotiate the sonars of expectation, desire, arousal, sequentiality, and perception.

For detailed information & map to the event, click here.

Source: www.testreading.org

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