Launch of Mechanophilia with Sarah Burgoyne, Misha Solomon, & Bridget Huh

Thursday, March 7, 7:00 PM
Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe
3952 Rue Wellington, Montreal

Join Sarah Burgoyne, Misha Solomon and Bridget Huh at Librairie Pulp on March 7th for the launch of Sarah Burgoyne and Vi Khi Nao’s collaborative mathematical infinite epic poetry book Mechanophilia (Book 1!), hosted by the inimitable Stuart Ross, editor of A Feed Dog Book, an imprint with Anvil Press. Poems will be read, books will be signed, refreshments will appear, and the number pi will unfurl among us in verse. JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF LOQUACIOUS BALLADEERING.

SARAH BURGOYNE is a Canadian experimental poet. Her second collection, Because the Sun was published with Coach House Books in April 2021 and was nominated for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry (2016), awarded a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Other works have appeared in journals across Canada and the U.S., have been featured in scores by American composer J.P. Merz and have appeared with or alongside the visual art of Susanna Barlow, Jamie Macaulay and Joani Tremblay. https://www.sarahburgoyne.com

VI KHI NAO (who will not be present this evening, but will be at the online launch March 11) is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022), A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019) Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), and of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: https://www.vikhinao.com

MISHA SOLOMON is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS and Full Sentences, and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, & Change, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, and PRISM international.

BRIDGET HUH is a queer Korean poet completing her undergraduate studies at Concordia University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, PRISM International, The Ex-Puritan and Canthius. She is the winner of the 2023 Vallum Poetry Award, and her debut collection of poetry is forthcoming from Véhicule Press.