Puppets Who Don't (and maybe even can't) Read!

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.
Puppets Who Don't (and maybe even can't) Read!

Nathaniel G. Moore, editor of Desire, Doom & Vice (Wingate Press), et al Desire, Doom & Vice is a dark, inspiring collection of poems and prose by some of Canada's best known and emerging writers on the subject of...what else? Desire, Doom and Vice, of course!

This Is Not A Reading Series invites you to come celebrate the launch of Desire, Doom & Vice and join editor Nathaniel G. Moore as he presents the premiere (and perhaps final) performance of Desire, Doom & Vice Theatre's The Worst Puppeteers In Canadian Literature! Featuring Puppeteers: Jon Paul Fiorentino, Ibi Kaslik, a. rawlings, Sarah Selecky, Ken Sparling, Paul Vermeersch & Jessica Westhead (Card subject to change with little, or more likely no, notice).

Also, enjoy a special premier of a short film by Geoffrey Pugen and Nathaniel G. Moore entitled: Them Was Rotten Days: Arctic Puppets & The Quest For Art Desire, Doom & Vice anthology authors: Sandra Alland, Janine Armin, Ryan Bigge, Di Brandt, Stephen Brockwell, Andy Brown, Michael Bryson, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Matthew Firth, Corey Frost, Mark Anthony Jarman, Ibi Kaslik, Catherine Kidd, Alexandra Leggat, Jennifer LoveGrove, rob mclennan, George Murray, a. rawlings, Matt Robinson, Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Sarah Lucille Selecky, Anne Simpson, Ken Sparling, John Stiles, Todd Swift, Nick Thran, R.M. Vaughan, Paul Vermeersch, L. E. Vollick, Jessica Westhead, A.A. Zabas.

Nathaniel G. Moore is a bookseller, the features editor of Danforth Review and regular contributor to Word, and Broken Pencil. Named a "Noisemaker" in 2004 by the Montreal Mirror, he recently performed his writing on ZeD TV (CBC). His first solo book, Bowlbrawl (an unauthorized biography of violence in professional bowling) is forthcoming later this year with Conundrum Press. Moore is represented online courtesy of Notho Entertainment. He lives in Toronto.