Artist: G. Tod Slone
Confronting Bodies: Organizers of the Festival International de Poesie de Trois-Rivieres
Date of Action: 2001
Specific Location: Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
Description of Artwork: Poems critical of the Festival, organizers and poets
Description of Incident: Read poems critical of the Festival, organizers and poets.
Results of Incident: At one point, the mike was turned off and I was not permitted to continue. I have not been asked to return to the Festival, whereas many poets are. I have been ostracized from the Quebec literary scene.
Source: G. Tod Slone, Ed. (enmarge@aol.com)
The American Dissident (www.geocities.com/enmarge)
A Literary Journal in the Samizdat Tradition of Engaged Writing
Providing a forum for Examining the Dark Side
of the Academic/Literary Industrial Complex et al
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Submitted By: G. Tod Slone