April 10, 2008, 7:30

Gladstone Hotel Reception Gallery
(2nd floor of Gladstone Hotel at 1214 Queen St. West)


Gail Scott co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative with Bob Gluck et al, Coach House, 2004, shortlisted for a Lambda award. Her other books include the story collection Spare Parts Plus Two [Coach House, 2002], her novel, My Paris, about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in contemporary Paris, Dalkey Archive [Normal, Ill] September, 2003; Mercury Press, 1999, named one of the year’s top 10 Canadian novels by Quill & Quire. Her other novels are Main Brides and Heroine, and essays are collected in Spaces Like Stairs and la théorie, un dimanche [with Nicole Brossard et al]. Her translation of Michael Delisle’s Le Déasarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award in translation [2001].

Rachel Levitsky’s first full length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1×1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998).  Most of her poetic works tend toward what is known as ‘the long poem’ and she is currently writing a prose novella. Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her work is published in magazines such as The Recluse, Sentence, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and the anthologies, Boog City (vol. I & II), Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Slög Med Bilum by Eiríkur Örn Nordahl. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, and Web Conjunctions. She has taught poetry workshops at Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House and the Poetry Project. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics.