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Lauren Peat is launching her Baseline chapbook, Future Tense, at Vancouver’s China Cloud Studios, with guest readers Isabella Wang, Rob Taylor, Fletcher FitzGibbon, and host Andrew French. Doors at 7pm, readings at 7:30. Cash bar and books for sale!
Poster by Andrea Tombleson.
knife|fork|book’s Fertil3 Festival of New & Inventive Works is taking place this year at the wonderful Printed Word Bookshop in Dundas, ON. This one-day event will include Baseline authors Lisa Baird and Jeremy Luke Hill, both reading from new Baseline chapbook collections.
The theme of this year’s festival is “Poetry is the Reason!” Come out and celebrate new small-press work from Baseline, Simulacrum, Gap Riot, Apt. 9, Anstruther, and knife|fork|book.
Suggested day-pass price is $20, which includes a $5 voucher towards merch.
Victoria’s Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series and Russell Books are hosting a Baseline Press evening featuring poets Eve Joseph, Sharon McCartney, and Patricia Young. Eve and Sharon will be launching their 2023 Baseline chapbooks (Eve’s Distractions and Sharon’s Hey Trouble and Other Poems), with Patricia reading from her 2017 Baseline collection Consider the Paragliders.
More info on the Facebook event page here.
ANIMA & Baseline Press present Membra Jesu nostri: a sung devotion. Join us for a performance & chapbook launch, all in celebration of Pride Month, at 10C Shared Space, 4th Floor, 42 Carden Street, Guelph.
Purchase tickets here.
Featuring:
Luke Hathaway, spoken word
Daniel Cabena, countertenor & violin
Chris Fischer, tenor
Paul Genyk-Berezowsky, baritone
Judith Souman, violin
Jonathan Oldengarm, organ
Baseline Press will be hosting a Toronto chapbook launch at the Hart House Library on Friday November 25th.
Join us for readings by Baseline poets Laboni Islam, Julia Lederer, Jennifer Still, and Jody Chan.
More info on the Facebook event page here.
Baseline Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Hart House Literary & Library Committee; and the London Arts Council / City of London Community Arts Investment Program.
Take a break from your Halloween activities and join us for our Sunday afternoon virtual chapbook launch!
Readings by: Jody Chan (Toronto) , Jennifer Still (Winnipeg), Julia Lederer (Toronto), and Laboni Islam (Toronto).
The Zoom registration link is here. More info on the Facebook event page here.
We’re also planning an in-person Toronto reading this November. Check back for details.
Baseline Press is generously supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
Baseline Press is launching seven new titles this summer! Please join us for a Sunday afternoon virtual poetry picnic. (We’ll bring the poetry!)
Our poets will be coming to us from 4 times zones. Things get started at 3pm Ontario time; 12 noon west coast; 4pm east coast; and 8pm UK.
Readings by: Alycia Pirmohamed & Pratyusha (London, UK); Jenny Berkel (Mahone Bay, NS); Dave Hickey (Stratford, PEI); Jason Dickson (London, ON); David Janzen (London, ON); Arleen Paré (Victoria, BC); and Cornelia Hoogland (Hornby Island, BC).
The Zoom registration link is here. More info on the Facebook event page here.
This event is supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
London's Baseline Press and 845 Press are going online this fall to launch our new 2020 poetry chapbooks! And this year we’ll be joined by London’s newest small press, Rose Garden Press.
Readers will include Baseline authors Olive Andrews (Montreal); A.H. Jernigan / Luke Hathaway (Halifax)); Anita Lahey (Ottawa) & Pauline Conley (Winnipeg); and more!
Hosted by 845 Press, Baseline Press & Rose Garden Press.
The Zoom link will be available on the day of the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2882554205307521
Baseline Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
NOTE NEW k|f|b LOCATION! Artscape Youngplace, Mezzanine level, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON
Baseline Press will be celebrating its 2019 chapbooks at knife|fork|book’s BRAND NEW SPACE on Friday, October 25th. With readings by Baseline authors Terrence Abrahams (Toronto), Nisa Malli (Toronto), Sile Englert (London), and Emily Lu (London). New chapbooks by Isabella Wang (Vancouver) and M.W. Jaeggle (Vancouver) will also be available!
Hosted by Karen Schindler and Kirby.
Doors at 6:30pm; readings from 7:00pm.
Facebook event here.
And while we have you here… please consider contributing to knife|fork|book’s 2019 membership drive! Celebrating its 3rd anniversary this October, it’s a one-of-a-kind poetry destination that so deserves our support!
203 Dundas St., London, ON
London's Baseline Press and 845 Press are partnering again to launch new 2019 poetry chapbooks at London’s beautiful TAP Centre for Creativity! Readers will include 845 author Brittany Renaud (London); plus Baseline authors Sile Englert (London), Emily Lu (London), Terrence Abrahams (Toronto), and Nisa Malli (Toronto).
Hosted by Karen Schindler, Aaron Schneider, and Amy Mitchell.
Doors at 6pm; readings from 6:30pm.
Cash bar + snacks!
Facebook event here.
Baseline Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
229 East Georgia St., Vancouver, BC
BC poets M.W. Jaeggle and Isabella Wang will be launching their debut Baseline chapbooks at Vancouver’s Massy Books!
Hosted by Amanda Reaume.
Facebook event here.
244 Augusta Avenue (2nd floor), Toronto, ON
Come out to Kensington Market's knife|fork|book Bookstore for Baseline Press' 2018 Toronto launch. Readers will include Baseline authors Lamees Al Ethari, Shelly Harder, Amanda Jernigan, and Sandra Ridley, and also k|f|b author Kate Sutherland.
It's all part of knife|fork|book's 2nd anniversary weekend! (Congratulations, k|f|b!)
Doors at 6:30pm; readings from 7:00pm.
123 Dundas St., London, ON
London's Baseline Press and 845 Press are teaming up! Come out to London's gorgeous DNA Gallery to celebrate poetry collections by Baseline authors Lamees Al Ethari, Shelly Harder, Amanda Jernigan, Sandra Ridley, and Anne-Marie Turza; and new titles by 845 Press authors Rhonda Dynes, Luke MacLean, and Andy Verboom.
Hosted by Karen Schindler, Aaron Schneider, and Amy Mitchell.
Doors at 6pm; readings from 6:30pm.
Cash bar + snacks!
Baseline Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church
25 Water St. North, Kitchener, ON
The Spiritus Ensemble presents "The Cantata Project": composer Zachary Wadsworth's cantata, written for the occasion from Amanda Jernigan's text, The Temple, will be premiered on January 28th, featuring countertenor Daniel Cabena and conductor Kenneth Hall. More details at spiritusensemble.com
2017 LONDON LAUNCH
DNA Gallery, 123 Dundas St., London, ON
(across the street from the old Kingsmill's)
Baseline Press will be London-launching its 2017 roster at DNA Gallery. New Baseline titles by Sam Cheuk, Joseph Mulholland, Matt Robinson, Andy Verboom, Chuqiao Yang and Patricia Young. Plus guest poets Kevin Shaws (Goose Lane Editions) and Miriam Love.
Hosted by Karen Schindler.
Doors at 6pm; readings from 6:30pm.
2017 TORONTO LAUNCH
Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton St., Toronto, ON
Join us at the Monarch Tavern to help Baseline Press and Anstruther Press celebrate some of their new 2017 chapbook titles. Readers will include Baseline's Sam Cheuk, Joseph Mulholland, Matt Robinson, Andy Verboom, and Chuqiao Yang. Along with Anstruther authors including David Koloszyc.
Hosted by Karen Schindler and Jim Johnstone.
Doors at 6:00pm; readings from 6:30pm.
"121 Studios" - 211 King St., London, ON
(2nd floor of the old Novak's building)
Baseline Press and Anstruther Press will be launching new 2016 titles with the help of Brown & Dickson Booksellers. (Yes, Brown & Dickson Books has moved to Richmond Row, but the launch will be at their former King St. location!)
Readings by John Wall Barger, Madeline Bassnett, Gabe Foreman, Emily McKibbon and Andy Verboom.
Hosted by Jason Dickson and Karen Schindler.
Doors at 6:30pm - readings from 7:00pm.
2016 TORONTO LAUNCH
Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton St., Toronto, ON
Join us at the Monarch Tavern where Anstruther Press and Baseline Press will be joining forces to celebrate new chapbooks by Baseline authors John Wall Barger, Madeline Bassnett, Gabe Foreman, Miki Fukuda, and Emily McKibbon; plus Anstruther authors Aaron Boothby, Aidan Chafe, Jeff Latosik and Andy Verboom.
Hosted by Jim Johnstone and Karen Schindler.
2015 MONTREAL LAUNCH - Argo Bookshop, 1915 St. Catherine West
Baseline is headed to Montreal! Come out to Argo Bookshop for the Montreal launch of the new Baseline anthology Translating Horses, edited by Jessica Hiemstra and Gillian Sze.
Featuring a little posse of anthology readers, plus special guest Darren Bifford!
Hosted by Jessica Hiemstra, Gillian Sze, and Karen Schindler
Doors at 7:00pm.
