Hostings, Readings, Professional Appearances and Artist Affiliations:

Promoter and Performance Instructor

  • Co-Creator, Organizer and host of Hot-Sauced Words Poetry and Spoken Word Performances held monthly at the Black Swan Tavern in Toronto since 2006. Additionally as a travelling forum to showcase local poets in Ontario towns (Uxbridge – 2007, Durham College, Oshawa – 5 performances in 2007, Brighton – Aug. 2008)
  • Host of several book launches and Literary Festivals in the Greater Toronto area
  • Creator, organizer and co-host of the Bye Bye Bush Bash (January 17, 2009), uniting the four major poetry reading hosts in Toronto for an evening of varied poetry styles and comedy in celebration of the end of the Bush Presidency.
  • Event organizer and host of the summer Canada Cuba Literary Alliance Art and Lit-Fest in Brighton, Ontario. Aug. 2008
  • Co-designer and administrator of Rock, Paper, Scissors the WCDR poetry contest for children and youth. Fall 2008
  • Art Bar Poetry Reading Series – third full-length feature, July 2008
  • Designer and Contest administrator of the WCDR Poetry Chapbook Challenge 2008
  • Finalist (with Sue Reynolds and Cameron Horack) in the annual Writing Fairy Humour Radio-Writing Contest, March 2008
  • Featured reading at the Harm Reduction Conference in Ottawa, March 2008
  • Featured reading at Plasticine Poetry Series, Toronto, January 2008
  • One of 27 Canadian poets Invited to join Random Acts of Poetry, an annual international celebration of poetry held the first week of October 2007
  • Featured reading at CCLA Lit-Fest in Brighton, Ontario, August 2007
  • Invited to join The League of Canadian Poets, June 2007
  • Appearance on The Artist’s Lifestyle radio show, May 2007
  • Featured reading at Coffee and Company in Kingston, April 2007
  • SEVEN appearances since 2005 on Nik Beat’s “HOWL” radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM., the latest being on July 15th and September 23rd, 2008
  • Art Bar Poetry Reading Series – second full-length feature, February 2007
  • Host of the Toronto Artbar Tribute to Irving Layton, May 2006
  • Judge of the WCDR Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest 2005 and 2006
  • Organizer and host of Hot-Sauced Words, since March 2006
  • Host of other poetry and spoken word readings and events since 2005
  • Art Bar Poetry Reading Series – first full length feature reading May 2005
  • Member of The Renaissance Conspiracy of Poets since 2004
  • Poetry editor and publisher since 2004