Rocket Science Room

POETRY MATTERS
warmly invites you to
borders, boundaries, margins
an evening of poetry readings with:

Shanice Nicole
Carlos A. Pittella
Elizabeth Wood

APRIL 16
Doors 6:30pm
Readings: 7pm
Cash bar
Free and open to the public

Paul Vermeersch launches his latest poetry collection NMLCT from ECW Press.

Saturday, October 18
Doors 6:30pm
Free entry
CASH BAR

Poetry readings from Liz Howard & Jessi MacEachern.


Followed by a reading by Paul Vermeersch and a conversation w/ Jay Ritchie.


Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, professor, and literary editor. His eighth collection of poetry NMLCT will be published in September 2025 by ECW Press. Paul holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph for which he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal. He is currently a professor at Sheridan College where he serves as the editor-in-chief of The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. He is also the senior editor of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers where he created the poetry and fiction imprint Buckrider Books. He lives in Toronto. Visit www.paulvermeersch.ca

Liz Howard is a poet, editor, and educator. Her critically acclaimed works include Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent and Letters in a Bruised Cosmos. Born and raised in Northern Ontario on Treaty 9 territory, she is now an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.  on Instagram.

Jessi MacEachern lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where she teaches English literature at Dawson College and Université de Montréal. She is the author of two books of poetry: Cut Side Down and A Number of Stunning Attacks.

Jay Ritchie is a poet, critic, and teacher. He holds a PhD in English from McGill University and an MFA in Poetry from UMass Amherst. He is the author of two poetry collections, Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie (Coach House Books, 2017) and Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024), a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. He is currently a Contract Faculty Member at Bishop’s University and a Course Lecturer at Université Laval. Creative and critical work has appeared in Chicago Review, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Maisonneuve, SAND, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere.

Congratulations again to Jacquelyn Zong Li-Ross on the launch of her debut collection of fictions, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon! And thank you to Jacob Wren who gave a stellar opening reading from his book, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim. And thank you to Carmen Faye Mathes who always has brilliant questions and insights.

Love you Montreal literature lovers!