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

a span-o special - leap on over to mother tongue!

an afternoon reading by Louis Cabri and Max Middle

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Sunday, February 29, 2004
2pm, mother tongue books

bios:

Louis Cabri lives in Calgary, but he used to live in Philadelphia, &
before that, Ottawa, where he ran the Experimental Writers Group, hole
magazine & the Transparency Machine event series with Rob Manery.
His first book, The Mood Embosser, poems written during the 1990s,
was published the other year by Coach House Books
(http://www.chbooks.com); it received a Book Award from the Small
Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco. Cabri curated
the events series PhillyTalks - over thirty poets in conversation -
and edited, with Nicole Markotic, open letters to/from poets
for Open Letter magazine. The PhillyTalks newsletters & sound recordings,
the poets' letters, & the documents of a recent poets' symposium he
helped organize, The Social Mark, are available at Slought Foundation
online (http://www.slought.org). He has taught at the Alberta College of
Art and Design and is currently completing a Ph.D. dissertation for the
University of Pennsylvania.

Max Middle is a writer & photographer. He returned to Ottawa early in 2003
after having spent more than four years in Edmonton. In 2002, he completed
a BA Honours degree in art history at the University of Alberta. He
organizes MediumRaw, a recently inaugurated Ottawa event that combines
poetry, performance, art & music. His poem, A Creation Song, was recently
published by above/ground press.

Mother Tongue Books, 1967 Bank Street (at Sunnyside), Ottawa. 613 730 2346.

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