![Poetry Matters warmly invites you to "borders, boundaries, margins," an evening of poetry readings featuring Shanice Nicole, Elizabeth Wood, Carlos A. Pittella. The event will take place at the Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204, Montreal, QC) on Thursday, April 16th at 7:00pm.
[bios]
SHANICE NICOLE is a Black feminist educator, facilitator, writer,
(out)spoken word artist, and mother based in Montreal. She is also the curator of free community resources such as Jobs & Things and All Black
Everything Montreal. Her debut children's book, Dear Black Girls, was published in 2021 by Metonymy Press. Shanice Nicole was nominated as Gala Dynastie’s Author of the Year in 2022 and named one of CBC’s Black Changemakers in 2024.
Originally from rural Ontario, ELIZABETH WOOD is a Montreal-based educator, visual artist, art writer, and poet. Her first chapbook Outlaw, Rainy Day was published in 2022 by Turret House Press. She was also a contributor to their collective chapbook XTRACTS Studio #7 (2022). More recently, her chapbook The quiet only knows half of itself was published by Anstruther Press in 2025. Wood’s poems and writing on art have appeared in numerous arts publications, exhibition catalogues, and poetry journals.
CARLOS A. PITTELLA is a Latinx poet and editor and the recipient of a 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize. His poetry is haunted by borders and bureaucracies and has appeared in places such as Shō, Jacket2, Glyphöria, & The Capilano Review. His first chapbook in English footnotes after Lorca was published in 2024 by above/ground press, and in 2025 he published Propersitions with Cactus Press. His latest work, the manifesto Dante’s Bureau, will be published by Anstruther Press in 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vdyucqz7c5gplbzwznd4yeot/bafkreifpb3wkpj2cz7nkbjydhcdyp7g5oxncclacesgcfyuemc7stuyym4)
Poetry Matters warmly invites you to "borders, boundaries, margins," an evening of poetry readings featuring Shanice Nicole, Elizabeth Wood, Carlos A. Pittella. The event will take place at the Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204, Montreal, QC) on Thursday, April 16th at 7:00pm. [bios] SHANICE NICOLE is a Black feminist educator, facilitator, writer, (out)spoken word artist, and mother based in Montreal. She is also the curator of free community resources such as Jobs & Things and All Black Everything Montreal. Her debut children's book, Dear Black Girls, was published in 2021 by Metonymy Press. Shanice Nicole was nominated as Gala Dynastie’s Author of the Year in 2022 and named one of CBC’s Black Changemakers in 2024. Originally from rural Ontario, ELIZABETH WOOD is a Montreal-based educator, visual artist, art writer, and poet. Her first chapbook Outlaw, Rainy Day was published in 2022 by Turret House Press. She was also a contributor to their collective chapbook XTRACTS Studio #7 (2022). More recently, her chapbook The quiet only knows half of itself was published by Anstruther Press in 2025. Wood’s poems and writing on art have appeared in numerous arts publications, exhibition catalogues, and poetry journals. CARLOS A. PITTELLA is a Latinx poet and editor and the recipient of a 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize. His poetry is haunted by borders and bureaucracies and has appeared in places such as Shō, Jacket2, Glyphöria, & The Capilano Review. His first chapbook in English footnotes after Lorca was published in 2024 by above/ground press, and in 2025 he published Propersitions with Cactus Press. His latest work, the manifesto Dante’s Bureau, will be published by Anstruther Press in 2026.
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👉 Thu, April 16 | 7pm
Rocket Science Room (170, rue Jean-Talon O #204)
A #PoetryMatters event with:
Elizabeth Wood, @itsshanicenicole.bsky.social, & @pittella.bsky.social
[Free & open to the public]
