On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 7:30pm at the Olga Korper Gallery (17 Morrow Ave, Toronto), we will be launching Descant 146: Immanence/Transcendence with a celebration of art and song. The issue invites festivity, with a slate of new poets and captivating artist portfolios by Kent Monkman and Robert Fones. Descant Contributing Editor, Mark Kingwell, considers the basis of this issue’s larger themes and, as always, artfully plays out their meaning. Calvin White provides an interview with Beat generation poet and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In the pages between these wresting contributions, the fall issue presents an homage to poetry’s venerable form at the hands of its newest transcending practitioners.

The Olga Korper Gallery, one of Toronto’s top exhibition spaces, will host this special event in tandem with a show of work by renowned sculptor John McEwen, a three-time Descant cover artist. The inimitable cellist Anna Jarvis is performing with pianist Jonah Humphrey, and some of our favourite poets (Mark Kingwell, Michael Lista, Jim Johnstone and Helen Guri) will read from their most recent work.

Copies of Descant 146 will be available for purchase at this free event, as well as assorted back issues featuring artwork by Olga Korper Gallery artists.

The evening promises the supreme themes of art and song, and good company to shut out unfriendly night. Please join us for our fall issue launch and celebration!

Descant 146: Immanence/Transcendence is on newsstands now!

Preview the issue here