Book Launch and Poetry Reading

March 4, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

Please join us for the launch of Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Sunny Ways and a poetry reading by local writers.

WHEN: March 4th @ 7PM

WHERE: Chapter Two Brewing, 2345 Edna St, Windsor

WHO: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jade Wallace, Mark Laliberte, Rawand Mustafa, Anna Karch, & Chloe Moore

Book table curated by Juniper Books & treats by Invisible Publishing 

 

Sunny Ways wades through the tangled complicities of climate catastrophe, grappling with the failure of political hope and the intransigence of climate change denialism. Fitzpatrick channels his experiences growing up in the big sky economic pragmatism of Calgary, where oil pays the rent and puts food on the table, into a pair of long poems that echo the ecological poetics of writers like Rita Wong, Stephen Collis, and Juliana Spahr.

“Sunny Ways jams its own sources as it lucidly refuses the hegemony of good cheer.”—Cam Scott

“Sunny Ways reorients oppositional points of language, negates affirmation, exposes the internal contradictions of our ecologically disinclined economics.”—Anahita Jamali Rad

“This is the better anthem for our petro-state, one that makes the rhetoric flow less smoothly.”—Wayde Compton

Ryan Fitzpatrick is a poet and critic living in Toronto/Tkaronto. His critical work centres on questions of spatial production, emergence, intimacy, and assemblage as they relate to contemporary poetics. He is the author of four books of poetry and over a dozen chapbooks. Currently, he is the publisher of Model Press, an online-only poetry micropress.

Rawand Mustafa is a Palestinian Syrian student living in Canada. She is currently pursuing an MA degree in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, for which she received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Her recent work has been published in The Matchstick and HAL Magazine.

Jade Wallace‘s writing has appeared in dozens of journals internationally and in several chapbooks. They are also the inaugural book reviews editor for CAROUSEL. Wallace’s debut collection of poetry, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There, is available now from Guernica Editions and officially launching in April.

Mark Laliberte is an artist-writer-designer-curator who edits the hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL. His work has appeared in Ink Brick, Poetry, prairie fire, Prefix Photo, subTerrain and Vallum. His books and chapbooks include BrickBrickBrick (Book*hug Press), asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press) and Explosive Comic (Swimmers Group).

MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity cofounded by Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace. MA|DE’s debut collection, ZZOO (Palimpsest Press, 2025), expands A Trip to the ZZOO (Collusion Books), shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. MA|DE’s fourth chapbook, Expression Follows Grim Harmony, is forthcoming this summer from Jack Pine Press.

Chloe Burrows-Moore is in the second year of an English MA degree at the University of Windsor. She is currently working on her thesis, which is a series of short stories presenting unique, fanciful, and impossible events taking place in a very real world.

Anna Karch is in her second year of an English MA degree at the University of Windsor. Her thesis project is a collection of prose, lineated poetry, lists, songs, and poetic translations, in which observations, thoughts, memories, and storytelling emerge about a Canadian childhood that reaches to and connects with Ukraine, Russia, and Latvia.

 

Chapter Two Brewing Company

2345 Edna St.
Windsor, ON Canada

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