internal trade: a reading series

Steven Ross Smith | Christine Walde | Matt Law

Thursday, September 10 @ 7pm

Provisional poetries, language operations, poetics of project/process/works in progress. A seasonal reading series where poets share and discuss a section of an active body of writing—listener inquiries encouraged. 

Steven Ross Smith’s work appears in over one hundred publications and fourteen books, including his seven-book “fluttertongue” poetic series. As SloLo Smithy he’s creating a performative LP with musical collaborators, featured on BandCamp. Smith creates in the region of the Songhees peoples, Victoria, BC. At fluttertongue.ca, bandcamp.com or stevenrosssmith@me.com.

Christine Walde is a poet, artist and librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in experimental prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance and visual arts. Walde lives and works on Lekwungen Territory in the Cascadia Bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.

Matt Law Is a poet, speech-language pathologist, editor/publisher of popular abattoir revue and co-founder of rain shadow poetics lab, based in Stz’uminus territory, on Vancouver island. Matt’s writing has appeared in Long Con Magazine, And Magazine, Esse arts + opinions and has been performed at Expozine Montreal, Antimatter [media art] and Pacific Cinematheque. Several recent poems appear in the Semolina Pilchard podcast.