Anyone who was lucky enough to be at Welcome to the Carnival last night was witness to two extraordinary performances. David Antin gave a stunning talk-poem, perfectly blending conversation and performance, dreams and narrative, politics and humour. We're hoping to post the audio file of the talk here soon so please keep coming back for more details.

This was followed by Steve McCaffery reading panel III from Carnival. Performing over a taped reading of himself, he amazingly blended Panel I and II from Carnival in a rolling, often funny show. Carol Fox, one of our esteemed bloggers, does a delightful job wrapping up the night over here so make sure to read that.

We're following up last night with tonight's Choose Your Own Poetic Adventure Pub Crawl. We begin at Camp 4 (1173 Dundas St. W) and Red Light (1185 Dundas St. W) and push down Ossington, each hour providing a new round of poets to choose from. Don't forget to grab one of the Choose Your Own Poetic Adventure books (for download now) we've whipped up - they've got excerpts and jokes galore!

We'll end the night at Levack Block (88 Ossington) with a.rawlings and The Centre For Sleep and Dreams. It's the perfect spot for a nightcap and winding down.

Today is also the last day to buy booklength tickets for Margaret Christakos' performance of Excessive Love Prostheses. Brandy Ryan has written a beautiful response to the work to get your mind working. Read it, then grab those tickets!

Lastly, check out two Screamers in the National Post.