KEYBOARDS! Live - VERSeFest 2023
Schedule
Fri Mar 24 2023 at 09:00 pm
Location
Ottawa Embassy Hotel & Suites | Ottawa, ON
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Register here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/keyboards2023Note: This event is limited capacity and not included in Festival Pass access. Please reserve tickets in advance to guarantee admission.
At KEYBOARDS!, host Justin Million encourages attendees to talk amongst themselves so that he might mine their conversations for material for improvisational typewritten poems. He brings no notes, and there is no prep. Here's Justin: "I have a bell, which I *DING* when I have completed a poem, and then I recite that poem immediately, without editing, and place that poem on a stool in front of me for a willing audience member to take away for a small donation to the "Art Jar". I keep no copies and take no pictures of these poems, so the one you pick up off the stool is the only version of that poem."
About the host:
Justin Million is a print and digital media poet, performance artist, founder of the Show and Tell Poetry Series, and co-founder and poetry editor at bird, buried press. His first trade book EJECTA: The Uncollected KEYBOARDS! Poems was published by Ottawa's Apt. 9 Press in 2020. Million lives and writes in his hometown of Peterborough, Ontario.
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Where is it happening?
Ottawa Embassy Hotel & Suites, 25 Cartier Street,Ottawa,ON,CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
