Last Sunday, on a wet, windy, grey afternoon, the weather was cold but not the spoken word. An intimate group enjoyed a trio of readers at our second PJ reading at our new venue, ORIGINAL’S Restaurante Mexicano.
This coming Sunday showcases our PJ Co-Founder reading with what will be a debut performance, so come on out and support them!
Featured Poets: Franci Louann and Brandon Pitts (Debut!)
Host: Renée Saklikar
Franci Louann
Co-founder and Co-Manager of Poetic Justice, Franci Louann’s published poetry has spanned over four decades. First anthologized in Dorothy Livesay’s iconic Woman’s Eye: 12 B.C. Poets (Air: 1974), her most recent e-publication is Wild Horses (Purple Poppy Press: 2015). She is the recipient of poetry prizes from Pandora’s Collective, the Burnaby Writers’ Society and the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. An accomplished poet, Franci has also been honoured for her volunteer work by several writing groups and is thrilled to be reading at Poetic Justice’s new venue.
Brandon Pitts
Seattle area-based Canadian poet Brandon Pitts is the author of the poetry collection, Tender in the Age of Fury (Mosaic Press. 2015). Pitts first came onto the Toronto lit scene in 2010 with the short story, “The BC Crib,” published in the anthology, Canadian Voices Volume II and the “Son In Law” in the anthology, TOK 7 – Reading the New Toronto. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Diaspora Dialogues as an “Emerging Voice” for fiction. He followed this with his novel Puzzle of Murders (Bookland Press, 2011) and then a poetry collection Pressure to Sing (IOWI, 2012) and the production of three plays.
