drift/line series

The fourth drift/line event is coming up Sunday, October 6, 7pm, at Musiikki Café on Brock St. in Kingston.

This Kingston event includes readings and music by local poets and musicians, including Sadiqa de Meijer, Liz Huntly, Rebecca Luce-Kapler, Max Montalvo, Paul Clifford, and Kyoko Ogoda.

Artist bios:

Sadiqa de Meijer

Sadiqa de Meijer has written two books of poetry and one of essays. Her work often explores landscape, art, inner lives, and the long wakes of colonialism and migration, and has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award for LIterature. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.

Liz Huntly

Liz Huntly is a baker, yoga teacher, mother and wordsmith. She lives north of Kingston, where she farms and runs the artisan bakery Grains & Goods with her husband and three feral offspring. She was longlisted for the Room Magazine Short Fiction Contest and awarded third place and honorable mention in the Kloppenburg Hybrid Grain Contest. Her poems have been published in the Skeleton Press and Wintergreen Press chapbooks 

Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Rebecca Luce-Kapler is Dean of Education, Queen’s University, a professor, and a writer. She is the winner of the Michener Medal in Fine Arts for writing and has published more than 50 poems and two books of poetry, most recently, The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie.   

Max Montalvo

Max Montalvo was born and raised in the fertile hills of Tecamachalco, Mexico. He was inspired to learn to play guitar on the day that Elvis died.  As a filmmaker, Max has explored genres ranging from flamenco to contemporary alternative rock, including work with Liona Boyd, Jose Valle 'Chuscales' and The Tragically Hip. 

Paul Clifford

Paul Clifford has played the bass since the early 90s, at first with local bands in Kingston, ON, and later with groups in Victoria, BC and Toronto, ON. He studied jazz upright bass at the University of Toronto (2002-2007) with Dave Young and Jim Vivian. Paul now lives back in his hometown Kingston and plays with a variety of artists.

Kyoko Ogoda

Kyoko Ogoda hails from Shizuoka, Japan. She started playing the piano with her mother Tomoko Ogoda at the age of 3. She began studying her major instrument the marimba at the age of 9.