BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250514T154737EDT-7543u9I013@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250514T194737Z DESCRIPTION:Please join Poetry Matters for readings by poets Willow Loveday Little and James Dunnigan. The event will be hosted by the Anti-Café Vieu x Port. All are welcome.\n\nVice Viscera: The Body Gives up What it Cannot Hold\n\nThe act of communication is inherently vulnerable for with it com es the risk of misinterpretation. In a worst-case scenario\, words are wea ponized against the speaker in a process of emotional evisceration. When t rust is broken\, the body responds. Trauma. Abuse. Heartbreak. Illness. “T rust your gut\,” can serve as a compass to navigate healing or be the sour ce of further symptoms of distress but ultimately\, the problem of vulnera bility is one that lies at the heart of connecting with others – through p oetry and elsewhere. The poems that make up this reading investigate the p sychosomatic and imagine “body language” as a process of catharsis – the c orporeal as a vessel and a portal\, bearing the potential to reveal and co nceal the self’s secrets. They attempt to dissect\, to explore physical in timacy as means for knowing others and anatomy\, as a lexicon for turning things inside out. \n\nWillow Loveday Little is a writer\, poet and freela nce editor whose work has appeared in places like The Dalhousie Review and  On Spec.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts from ϲ University\, teaches E SL\, and runs workshops at Sur Place Media. In 2018\, she was a finalist f or the QWF poetry mentorship. She curates “Pieces of Process\,” an art ser ies that aims to demystify creative process by providing a space for emerg ing artists to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about art. Willow is currently agonizing over her first chapbook manuscript\, Viscera.\n\nC andour\, Or: “Sometimes I Think The Branches In The Winter Night Are Shake n By Your Hands”\n\nCandour\, from the Latin candere\, to shine\; in Engli sh meaning openness\, frankness\, honesty. This reading proposes to invest igate candour as a powerful\, luminous source of poetic creativity and als o as a potent force for change in individuals and the renovation of human relationships. It also seeks to explore candour’s errors\, the various way s in which that same force can\, along with its potential to heal\, to bri ghten\, to better\, potentially damage\, betray and degrade people\, or de grade\, betray and damage art. The poems to be presented\, thus\, are all artefacts of candour\, or attempts at capturing it. They will take the hea rer many places\, from antique Carthage to 20th-century Hungary\, from sub urban Quebec to the gates of Stalingrad. Drawing from memory and myth alik e\, they will seek to present a vision of candour as a revolutionary gestu re in an era of constant deception\, at once a salve for the bruises of th e commonplace and a fiery destroyer of illusions.\n\nJames Dunnigan is a p oet\, scholar and fishmonger from Montreal. His first book of poetry\, The Stained Glass Sequence\, won the Frog Hollow Press chapbook competition i n 2018. Shortlisted for the Gwendolyn MacEwen poetry prize in the same yea r\, his work has also appeared in such places as Maisonneuve Magazine\, CV 2 and Montreal Writes. A second chapbook\, Wine and Fire\, is forthcoming with Cactus Press.\n DTSTART:20191205T220000Z DTEND:20191206T000000Z LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, Anti-Cafe Vieux Port\, 406 Rue Notre-Dame est SUMMARY:Catharsis and Candour: Willow Loveday Little and James Dunnigan URL:/poetrymatters/channels/event/catharsis-and-candou r-willow-loveday-little-and-james-dunnigan-302917 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR