Yellow Door Reading

The world is full of beautiful yellow doors. I wonder how many? Now there’s a novel. I will call it, The Yellow Door Quest. Knock Knock. Or, Opening Yellow Doors. I will wander the world, armed with a generous grant, and whenever I spot a yellow door I will knock, only to be greeted by eccentric, extremely hospitable characters who serve me delectable home cooked dishes doused with a portion of wisdom. I could actually write a novel about the ideas I get for writing novels. For now I am working on short pieces and will be reading them at where else but Montreal’s Yellow Door on Thursday, April 8. The door is open to all. Welcome!

THE YELLOW DOOR
POETRY AND PROSE READING

www.yellowdoor.org

3625 Aylmer, Montreal (between Pine & Prince Arthur) Tel: [phone]

Founder, producer/host Ilona Martonfi 514-939-4173

[e-mail]

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Doors 7:00 pm Show 7:30PM At the door $5

An Evening of Poetry, Prose & Music

Stephen Morrissey His latest collection of poems is Girouard Avenue, Coracle Press, 2009. Visit www.stephenmorrissey.ca.

Talleen Hacikyan Author and illustrator of the artist’s book, Postcards. Stories published in Ararat Quarterly and Room Magazine. www.talleen.net

Laurence Hutchman Author of Explorations, Blue Riders, Foreign National, Emery, & Reading the Water. Teaches at the Université de Moncton.

Ksenija Spasic is completing a Master’s degree and editing Headlight magazine. She writes and sings, often about her travels.

Paul Serralheiro Poet, musician, & writer; author of a chapbook, Engines. Published in numerous periodicals; teaches English at Dawson College.

Barbara Myers Ottawa writer and workshop facilitator; grew up in Halifax. Her new book, Slide, is her first full poetry collection.

Jesse Patrick Ferguson resides in Fredericton. He is a poetry editor The Fiddlehead, Harmonics (Freehand, 2009) is his first poetry book.

Jordi Rosen plays her Dream Pop songs of love and healing for you. It’s time to celebrate life!

In Celebration of National Poetry Month. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the League of Canadian Poets.

The Lamppost Diary Book Launch

THE LAMPPOST DIARY
Agop J. Hacikyan

BOOK LAUNCH
Reading by Talleen Hacikyan

Sunday March 14, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Admission is free
Reception at the end

SOCIETE DES ARMENIENS D’ISTANBUL
2855 Victor Doré
Montreal, Quebec
H3M 1T1

The Lamppost Diary was published last fall, by Telegram Books, in London. It is a spine-tingling love story between Tomas and Anya–the daughter of white Russian emigres—burgeoning sexual desires, rituals of growing up and of startling fortitude of a group of youngsters living in Turkey during and after World War II before moving to Canada and the States in the sixties.

Agop J. Hacikyan is a Canadian academic and writer of Armenian descent. He is the author of over 30 books on literature and linguistics as well as five novels, including A Summer Without Dawn, an international bestseller. Hacikyan, now Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies, has been awarded several prizes in Canada, France, and Armenia for the ensemble of his literary work and contribution to Armenian culture. He has resided in Montreal since 1957.

Renata Burn’s interview with A. J. Hacikyan, in London, has just been published in Cafébabel.

For my interview with the author, see my blog (October 2, 2009), Reinventing the Past: In Conversation With A. J. Hacikyan