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ALL LIT UP’s 2025 ‘World Poetry Day’ Reading Recommendations!


World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.

Amazing to see ZZOO is a part of ALL LIT UP’s ‘30 must-read poetry collections’ list, recommended to help celebrate this special day — thanks for including us alongside so many other interesting artists (like Jessica Bebenek, Kyle Flemmer, Tea Gerbeza, Amy LeBlanc, Joseph Maviglia and Cecily Nicholson to name a few!)

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2025 Ontario ‘ZZOO’ Tour Announcement!

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After 6+ years collaborating together MA|DE is FINALLY GOING ON TOUR to promote our debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO!

We hope you’ll be able to join us at one of these launches:

FEB 28 TORONTO > Queen Books
MAR 01 GUELPH > ANAF Club 344
APR 12 LONDON > Little Wren Books
APR 13 ST. CATHARINES > Niagara Artists Centre / Phylum Reading Series
APR 26 WINDSOR > Biblioasis Bookshop
JUN 18 PETERBOROUGH > Take Cover Books
JUN 19 KINGSTON > Novel Idea
JUN 21 OTTAWA > Ottawa Small Press Book Fair
JUN 23 HAMILTON > Hamilton Public Library

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More details, including guest readers at every event, coming soon! And if you’d like to invite us to read somewhere, we’re still booking events for this year, just get in touch.

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MA|DE reading — with ryan fitzpatrick & others (Sat Mar 04, 7pm — Windsor)

💥 Save the date! This coming Saturday March 4th beginning at 7pm MA|DE members will be participating in a free-to-attend poetry reading celebrating the book launch of ryan fitzpatrick’s Sunny Ways (Invisible Publishing, 2023) — we’ll be doing both solo and collaborative sets, and word has it that Wallace will have advance copies of their debut solo collection, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (which will officially launch in Windsor some time in April)

Readers for the evening include:
– ryan fitzpatrick
– Anna Karch
– Mark Laliberte
– MA|DE
– Chloe Moore
– Rawand Mustafa
– Jade Wallace

Attend in person (masking encouraged) at Chapter Two Brewing — 2345 Edna St, Windsor

Want to know more about Sunny Ways or pre-order a copy?
— Visit Invisible Publishing for info

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MA|DE collaboration with Christopher Bissonnette (12K/Kranky/Dronarivm recording artist) debuting at THE EX-PURITAN Issue 60 Launch (in Toronto & via Facebook Live) — Feb 24, 6pm!

💥 Save the date! This coming Friday February 24th from 6-8pm THE EX-PURITAN is launching their hybrid/experimental section (which appear in Issue 60: Winter 2023) and we are thrilled to be a part of both the inaugural iteration of this section and its launch!

We’re happy to be debuting a video/sound/text collaboration with 12K / Kranky / Dronarivm recording artist, Christopher Bissonnette!

Featured multimedia performers include:
– MA|DE (in collaboration with Christopher Bissonnette)
– Gary Barwin
– Khashayar Mohammadi
– Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Hosted by the hybrid section’s talented editors:
– Rasiqra Revulva & William Dao

You can attend either in person (masked at The Cat’s Eye at 150 Charles St W, Toronto) or virtually via Facebook Live (livestreamed).

— Visit the event page for full details