The Muttertongue Trio
Lillian Allen is the City of Toronto’s seventh poet Laureate, a dub poet, writer, Juno Award winner and a creative writing professor at OCAD University. A pre- and post-language innovator, she works at the intersection of dub, sound and rebel poetics. She publishes widely in print and audio, and lectures/performs internationally.
Gary Barwin is a writer, multimedia artist, performer, musician, and author of 32 books. His nationally bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize and won the Leacock Medal. His music, art, and writing have been performed, exhibited, published and broadcast internationally.
Gregory Betts is a poet and professor at Brock University and the author or editor of 25 books. His poems have been stenciled into the sidewalks of St. Catharines and selected by the SETI Institute to be implanted into the surface of the moon. He is an award-winning scholar of the Canadian avant-garde, curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive, and Literary Arts Residency Lead at the SETI Institute.
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