Tonight I attended the second of three Friday night readings hosted by Diaspora Dialogues and Keep Toronto Reading at the TPL Palmerston Branch. It was my first off-campus reading and the first time I ever ventured further than Bloor and Spadina in my life and I had an amazing night!
Tonight’s readings were hosted by Jill Andrew and included performances by nisha ahuja, Anthony De Sa, Sonja Greckol, The M.A.D. Poet, Sarena Parmar, and Cesar Polvorosa Jr. Each person’s performance rocked, but I especially enjoyed Anthony de Sa’s reading of “The Shoe Shine Boy” and the M.A.D. Poet’s spoken word poetry. Though I’m embarassed at my extreme emotion, her performance pretty much moved me to tears. I found one of the two poems she performed tonight on YouTube, which I embedded below: