Devotional Chaos Reading Group #6: Cigs

Join Melly Davidson & Mic Jones at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of reading & writing & discussion around our reading & writing. All kinds of experience necessary. Some supplies provided. (just bring what you need to write)

Session #6: Cigs featuring Dodie Bellamy, Ben Lerner, & CA Conrad

About

This reading group is for chaotically dedicated writers and artists, who want to deepen their practice through reading, prompt work, and collective discussion.

Together, we'll read and discuss a selection of prose and poetry excerpts, then we’ll write through the readings by collaboratively building writing prompts to work with in session. And share what we’ve written with each other.

You can expect a collaborative, generative, and informal space.

Reading materials are provided but bring whatever it is you write with. No prep is required. PWYC

Your hosts

Mic Jones is a poet. Theft, dancing, paying rent, gender, mosh-pit-style-bibliographies, spit & trees come up in their work a lot. You can read them in CV2, Peripheral Review, The Poetry Project, Hobart Pulp, Simulacrum, Stone of Madness, & beyond. Mic curates readings for the League of Canadian Poets and is the co-founder of Undisciplined Collective, a trans-medium workshop/exhibition series for queer artists in Tkaronto.

Melly is a poet & facilitator. Melly’s work explores the interplay between everyday mundanity & sacred revelation, revealing the inherent distortions between the two. Their process includes screen recording, collaging, riffing, pocket trashing, internet relicing, & big fun party mixing. Find their work in ROOM, CV2, Metatron Press, Arc Poetry, Silverfish, Toronto Biennial of Art, & beyond. Today Melly is moved by profound synchronicities in youtube comments, & the karaoke versions.

Info: We'll get started right away, so please arrive on time. Note that we may not be able to welcome you into the space any more than five minutes before our start time.
Our hosts, Mic & Melly will introduce the series, the chosen theme, and curated texts.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Issues Magazine Shop, 1489 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Canada