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Pivot’s Fall Debut on September 18th: Stan Dragland, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Sara Peters, & Robin Richardson 7 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
This is it. You’ve all been very patient through the long dry season as Pivot took its usual three months off for regrouping. Now that all that distasteful warmth and exposed skin is starting to wind ...
Pivot (Finale) on June 19th: Callanan, Lista, Richardson, and Scheier 6 Jun 2013 | 08:11 pm
Friends, this is it. Pivot’s 2012-13 season comes in for a landing with her final four authors, numbers 67 through 70 for the year. Jael Richardson holds it down for the memoir form amid a sea of hots...
Pivot on June 5th: Charmaine Cadeau, Andrew Faulkner, David Seymour, & Ayelet Tsabari 23 May 2013 | 10:21 pm
Pivot enters the final month of its 2012-13 season with a quartet of new readers. A duo of new books from the city’s great poetry citadel, Coach House Books, are paired with a buzzworthy short story c...
Pivot on May 22nd: Chris Eaton, Shannon Maguire, & David Seymour 10 May 2013 | 09:37 pm
Variety, people. Pivot’s got it. From Chris Eaton’s identity-obsessed narrative experiment to Shannon Maguire’s eclectic intellectualism to David Seymour’s well-mined trough of the sublime, we have th...
Pivot on May 8th: Margaret Christakos, Adam Dickinson, John Goldbach, & Phil Hall 25 Apr 2013 | 09:27 pm
Pivot is glad it won’t be April anymore. It’ll be May, the month in which Toronto resets its attempt at spring, the new books stack up on all our bedside tables, and the students & teachers among us g...
Pivot on April 24th: Mary Dalton, Guy Ewing, Jay MillAr, & Michael Eden Reynolds 11 Apr 2013 | 09:52 pm
Pivot is going local. Pivot is going national. Pivot is bringing poets from the farthest capitals in the country (Whitehorse, St. John’s) and series regulars from just down the Street. That’s Bookthug...
Pivot on April 10th: Roseanne Carrara, Jessica Hiemstra, and Christine McNair 29 Mar 2013 | 01:47 am
April. I know right? April! We get moving into the spring with three very different poets with addresses in Ottawa and Toronto. A translator. A novelist. A book doctor. A newlywed. A blogger. A follow...
Pivot on March 27th: Ken Babstock, Andrew Borkowski, Jessica Moore, & Stan Rogal 14 Mar 2013 | 07:41 pm
Things are getting serious. The days are longer, the air is warmer, and there are book launches every day. It’s late March in Toronto, and we have a quartet of authors ranging from cosmopolitans to lo...
Pivot on March 13th: Dave Cameron, Cary Fagan, and Rachel Lebowitz 28 Feb 2013 | 10:20 pm
It’s practically spring. A day after our one-off Tuesday night show in celebration of our Irish guests, Pivot gets back on schedule with a trio of Canadian authors with diverse interests, concerns, an...
(Bonus) Pivot on March 12th: Irish poets Rita Ann Higgins and Matthew Sweeney read in Toronto 28 Feb 2013 | 08:50 pm
Two of Ireland’s best contemporary poets will be at The Press Club on Dundas St. West on Tuesday, March 12th to read from new work. They will be joined by some local Toronto poets, drinks and stories ...
