Let the leaves fall where they may, and join us in our cozy downtown space at WEP Central (#3 Bartlett Ave) for Poetry At The Phoenix with this months poets: Em Dial and Gary Barwin!

Doors at 7pm. Readings from 7:30 - 8:30.

Entry is cash only, pay what you can at the door

EM DIAL is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and White, chronically ill poet, grower, and educator born and raised in the Bay Area of California, currently living in Toronto. They are the author of In the Key of Decay (Palimpsest Press, 2024), and their work can be found in the Literary Review of Canada, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere.

Writer and multimedia artist, GARY BARWIN is the author of 31 books including Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 and the national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates which won the Leacock Medal and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize and was long listed for Canada Reads. He lives in Hamilton. garybarwin.com