Plan 99 presents

Mike Garry & Ellen Chang-Richardson

Hosted by David O'Meara

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Saturday

Oct , 2022

5:00pm

Eastern

Manx

370 Elgin Street • Ottawa

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Ellen Chang-Richardson Ellen Chang-Richardson Mike Garry

I love Mike Garry’s poetry. It’s passionate, powerful and precise but most of all personal.

Philip Glass

We’re thrilled to announce that Plan 99 is back for readings by poets Mike Garryand Ellen Chang-Richardson at the Manx Pub.

Please note that the Manx is asking patrons to mask when not seated during this event.

Mike Garry, a UK spoken word artist, has worked with New Order, Philip Glass & Patti Smith and had a number one in the British charts with an elegy for Tony Wilson (of Manchester Factory records fame) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYNI8s_vo4
A librarian for fifteen years, Mike has taken his gritty poetry around the world and is currently touring with John Cooper Clarke.
Website: https://www.mikegarry.co.uk/

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks, their multigenre writing has appeared in Room magazine, Vallum Contemporary, Augur Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Anti-Heroin Chic, and more. Their debut collection, Blood Belies, is out with Buckrider Books (an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn) in Spring 2024.
Website: https://www.ehjchang.com/

The Authors

Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent who currently lives/works as a settler on the traditional, unceded, territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre work has appeared in Augur, The Fiddlehead, Watch Your Head, and Room, among others. They co-founded Riverbed Reading Series, are a member of the poetry collective VII, and are represented by Tasneem Motala of The Rights Factory. Their debut collection, Blood/Belies, is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books.

Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ellen Chang-Richardson (they/them) is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent and the author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024). The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, Ellen's writing has appeared in Augur, The Ex-Puritan, Grain, Watch Your Head, and more. They are a member of Room magazine's editorial collective, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII.

Mike Garry

Mike Garry, a UK spoken word artist, has worked with New Order, Philip Glass & Patti Smith and had a number one in the British charts with an elegy for Tony Wilson (of Manchester Factory records fame) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYNI8s_vo4 A librarian for fifteen years, Mike has taken his gritty poetry around the world and is currently touring with John Cooper Clarke. Website: https://www.mikegarry.co.uk/