The Canadian cultural treasure, Labour of Love poetry magazine has just released its final issue. Labour of Love has given many of Canada’s finest poets their start; Valentino Assenza and the late Nik Beat are just two of the many […]
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Tender in the Age of Fury Tour wraps up in Vancouver BC.
After 20 dates, I wrapped up the Tender in the Age of Fury Tour. I’d like to thank all the curators who booked me and showed an interest in my work and everyone who made it out. It was a […]
Poetry reading in France
After hanging out with Jim Haynes and reading poetry at Au Chat Noir in Paris I headed to Vittaeux France to read poetry at the C.I.R.C. Centre International de Rencontres Culturelles at La Roche D’Hys, Vitteaux, France. I was lucky that renowned […]
Video of the Palmerston Library set, June 27th, Toronto ON.
Here is a video of my reading at the Palmerston Library in Toronto. I am about an hour into the show and the link should drop you at my start point. I was travelling and didn’t have time to prep […]
Labour of Love — poetry magazine, #41 R.I.P. The Last Issue
Labour of Love — poetry magazine, #41 R.I.P. The Last Issue Summer 2016, ISSN 1192-621x Brandon’s poem, “For Joe, Who Ended His Own Life” makes its first appearance in print. The poem is a piece of the a much longer […]
Eugene Oregon, stop #12 on my tour.
Brandon Pitts at Tsunami Books Eugene OR.Photo by David Arthur After a max capacity crowd at Seattle's Wedgwood Ale House, I headed down to Eugene Oregon with the legendary Everett Washington poet, Duane Kirby-Jensen for "Poetry for the People" at [...]
Happy birthday to Artist Jennifer Hosein
Wishing Jennifer Hosein a happy birthday! I can remember the first time I saw Jennifer’s art. The late Nik Beat took me over to her apartment in the Annex. I walked in and was immediately blown away by her art […]
Mosaic Poets with Stedmond Pardy
On February 16th, after a meeting at Mosaic Press’ Oakville office, I met up with Stedmond Pardy in Toronto’s Kensington Market. Kensington is ground zero for my first real literary triumph, my reading of the “BC Crib” from “Canadian Voices II” […]
Brandon interviewed in Musically Yours Magazine.
Journalist and radio host, T. Gregory Argall interviewed Brandon Pitts for the 2015 Winter Edition of Musically Yours, Deirdre Mallehe. “I worked for so many years on developing my own voice. When I was growing up, the music and literature […]
Hot Sauced Words, stop #9 on the Tender in the Age of Fury Tour
Brandon read poetry to a standing room only crowd at Toronto’s Central for the Hot Sauced Words poetry series. Reading with Brandon was poet Alexandra Innes. The evening was hosted by Creative James Dewar. Photo by Duane MacNeil […]