July 5, 2024
7-9pm
Show and Tell Poetry Series hosted Toronto-based poet Spencer Gordon for the Peterborough launch of his latest poetry collection ‘A Horse At The Window‘ from House of Anansi Press! Joining Spencer was Peterborough’s own Elisha Rubacha, and visiting poet Daniel Scott Tysdal. Hosted by Show and Tell Poetry Series’ own Justin Million.
“Hi folks, Justin here. Yes, you read that event title correctly: this will be the final event hosted by my Show and Tell Poetry Series. After nine years, 90 events, and after hosting more than 100 artists, Show and Tell Poetry Series is coming to a close. It would be great to see you one last time at the FINAL Show and Tell Poetry Series event! If you want to take a look at our legacy of events, among other things, check out our website here: showandtellpoetry.wordpress.com“
Bios:
Spencer Gordon is the author of three books: a collection of dramatic monologues, A Horse at the Window (House of Anansi Press, June 2024), the poetry collection Cruise Missile Liberals (Nightwood Editions, 2017), and the short story collection Cosmo (Coach House Books, 2012). He was co-founder and was senior editor of The Puritan (now Ex-Puritan) for over ten years. He’s taught writing across Toronto at Humber College, OCAD University, the University of Toronto and George Brown College. He works as a Principal Associate at Blueprint, a non-profit research organization dedicated to solving public policy challenges. Read more at his website, www.spencer-gordon.com, or follow him on Twitter/X @spencergordon.
Elisha May Rubacha lives and writes in Peterborough, ON. She was a finalist for Peterborough’s Outstanding Emerging Artist Award (2018), and shortlisted for the PRISM International Creative Non-fiction Contest (2016). Her poetry chapbook “too much nothing” was published by Apt. 9 Press (2018), and her first stage play, “Waiting for Real Jobs” was produced during the Precarious Festival (2019). In 2022, Canada Council for the Arts funded her end-to-end hike of the Bruce Trail, and she is currently writing a multidisciplinary book of poetry about the journey. She is the founder, editor, and designer of bird, buried press, which has published over 20 chapbooks of fiction and poetry since 2016.
Daniel Scott Tysdal is a writer, filmmaker, and teacher. His works include the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (OUP) and the TEDx talk “Everything You Need to Write a Poem (and How It Can Save a Life).” His most recent collection of poetry is The End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems. Read more at www.danielscotttysdal.com.
