Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr read and discuss their work
The first of three early evening events in our Poetry in Conversation strand brings together poets Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr. Claudio Pozzani is the founder and director of the Genoa International Poetry Festival, a leading event in Italian poetry since 1995. Jay MillAr and his wife Hazel Millar are the duo behind the publishers Book*Hug, a radically optimistic Canadian independent literary press working at the forefront of contemporary book culture. Theypreviously co-hosted the HIJ salon reading series in his home in Toronto. Come along to hear Claudio and Jay read their poetry and discuss the intersections of writing and curating poetry, reflecting on how poetry works on and off the page.
Claudio Pozzani, from Genoa (Italy), is a poet, narrator and musician. His poems have been translated and published in more than ten countries. Claudio has been the director of the Genoa International Poetry Festival in Italy since 1995, the oldest poetry event in Italy. He has also created and organised several poetry events in Europe (France, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Austria) and Japan. Additionally, he is the director of the ‘Stanza della Poesia’ (the room of poetry) in Genoa, with over than 120 free events every year. Claudio is the co-founder of the European platform Versopolis for emerging European poets.
Jay MillAr is the author of several collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Other Poems, Timely Irreverenceand I Could Have Pretended to Be Better than You: New & Selected Poems. He is also the author of several privately published editions, including Lack Lyrics, which tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jay is co-publisher at Book*hug Press, an award-winning independent publishing house in Toronto that is dedicated to exploratory work by well known and emerging writers. He also runs Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specialises in the books that no one wants to buy. He lives and works in Toronto with his wife Hazel (who is the other half of Book*hug) and their two sons.
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