Poetry Jazz Café - 224 Augusta Ave, Toronto
Two exciting features; free snacks; $5 admission; 12 spots on the open mic! Hear awesome poetry, read a poem of your own invention; hawk your chapbook and enjoy a drink in the ambiance of one of TO's coolest jazz bars! Bios below:
Ivy Reiss is the founding publisher, editor-in-chief, and current art-director for The Artis magazine, and producer and host of The Artis with Ivy Reiss talk-show. The talk-show interview the biggest names in the GTA art scene about compelling topics on art and culture, airing out of ThatChannel.com. The Artis was nominated as a finalist at the 24th annual MARTY Award s in May 2018—just 13 months from the 2017 launch—in the “creative design—emerging” category.
Ivy has been a writer, spoken word performer, event host coordinator and keynote speaker for ten years. She organized and hosted the Oakville Lit Café reading series from 2012 – 2016, turning it into a go-to hub for poets and writers from all over the GTA, western Ontario, and as far as the USA and UK with a feature on Cogeco Cable’s Arts Matter TV show in April 2013 for being the biggest go-to-art-hob.
Ivy is currently writing on her experiences in the remote fly-in community of Naujaat, Nunavut (formerly Repulse Bay). In October 2016, she lived with the Inuit in their homes and investigated the education, healthcare, food, and housing conditions, while giving talks at the elementary and high-school, and the air-cadets on the importance of post-secondary education, their settled land claims, and how the future of Canada hinges on its youngest, and fully bilingual population; the Inuit.
Ivy’s anticipated collection of poetry, There is a Place, is launching Fall 2019. She will have a chap-book preview available in February 2019 for her audience.
Find out more about The Artis at www.TheArtisMagazine.com.
Ivy is sought after as a writer, editor, ghost writer, writing coach, and editor. Reach Ivy at ivy_reiss@hotmail.com and follow on Twitter at Ivy_Reiss
Jovan Shadd is a poet still new to the city who hones his craft on open mic stages where he finds them. He draws inspiration for his poems from such things as mental health, social justice, relationships and more.