span-o (the small press action network - ottawa)
presents

The Factory Reading Series at Gallery 101
featuring some of the best writers
in Canada

Thursday, February 26th, 2004 at 7:30pm

readings by jwcurry (Ottawa)
& maria erskine (Toronto)

Gallery 101, 236 Nepean Street, Ottawa (1/2 block west of Bank Street)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan

bios:

called the best visual & concrete poet in Canada, jwcurry is mainly in
Ottawa at Room 302 Books, stocking his imprint Curvd H&z, loading the
magazine for INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE & coordinating 1cent at a time & an
occasional SPUDBURN amidst the cursing in A Onion Printslop & grunting on
behalf of the unconscious membership of the Canadian Small Change
Association. Some of his work appeared recently in Groundswell: best of
above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press). he is calling his
performace at The Factory Reading Series "messagio galore."

maria erskine writes of herself, "answers to Corrupter of Words' if not to
Touchstone; carries on as if music was a major foodgroup and colours were
for getting drunk on." She lives in Toronto, where she is former grand
dame (with Maggie Helwig) of the Toronto Small Press Fair, and current
editor of WORD, the literary calendar. Some of her work also appeared
recently in Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw
Press).

for more information, bother rob mclennan at 613 239 0337 or
az421@freenet.carleton.ca / or check out the span-o link at
www.track0.com/rob_mclennan

span-o & The Factory Reading Series GREATFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GALLERY 101 FOR THE GENEROUS DONATION OF THE SPACE.

next reading: march 25, Andy Brown (Montreal) & Michael Blouin (Ottawa)