Monday, December 14
From fake snow and fake Christmas trees to Santa Lands, Derek McCormack celebrates the season’s tackiest and touching artifacts in his book Christmas Days. McCormack and his publisher House of Anansi Press celebrate the paperback release of the holiday book at Type Books (883 Queen Street West, 7-9 p.m., FREE).
Tuesday, December 15
An “upgraded” edition of Christian Bok’s Eunoia, a poetry collection in five chapters, with each chapter containing a single vowel, will be feted tonight at Supermarket (268 Augusta Avenue, 7:30 p.m., FREE), with Darren Wershler, Priscila Uppal, Ken Babstock, Andrew Pyper and Russell Smith on hand to up the verbal hijinx count. Please bring you own vowels. The Art Bar Poetry series at Clinton’s (693 Bloor Street West) celebrates the seventh anniversary of Dead Poets Night, an event in which local poets read the work of, you guessed it, poets who have passed on. Tonight Bruce Meyer, Alison Pick, Nik Beat, Clara Blackwood and several other poets read work from such departed greats as Emily Dickenson, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Kavanagh and Alfred Noyes (8 p.m., FREE).
Wednesday, December 16
Authors Claudia Dey, Edward Nixon and Moez Surani read at the final 2009 gathering of the Pivot reading series, held at the Press Club (850 Dundas Street West, 8 p.m. FREE), while the In(side) the Veins poetry open mic and workshop continues at Culturshoc (1205 Queen Street West, 8 p.m., FREE).
