Founders / Hosts:

monica s. kuebler
monica has been an active performance poet for over six years, formerly the host of the Tangled Oak Tops reading series, she is the author of 3 chapbooks and is currently completing her first CD & full length book. monica is also the founder of Burning Effigy Press. She has performed as far abroad as Montreal, Quebec, London, England, and San Francisco, USA. In review, Listen.com called monica s. kuebler "one ballbuster of a muse", a reputation she's very proud of.

website #1: PoetGirl.org / website #2: StrangeAngel.net
Buy her chapbooks online!

Jeff Cottrill
Jeff is a Toronto satirist, fiction writer, journalist and spoken-word performer. He is Assistant Editor of Divorce Magazine and has also been published in The Detroit News, Canoe.ca, Exclaim!, OWL, The Village Post and several literary journals. He has read and performed his work on numerous stages in Toronto and San Francisco as well as on radio. In addition to Strange Tongues, he has also been an occasional host of the Cafe at the Centre open stage. In February 2002, Jeff published his first chapbook, Cruelty and Kindness, through Burning Effigy Press.

Features / Regulars:

Cynthia Gould
Cynthia Gould is a writer, painter, performance poet, graphic and web designer, and coffee junkie living in Toronto. Cynthia has appeared on radio and television, and in print in everything from WORD to 'zines to Reader's Digest. Her main website is ihaveasecret.com. Cyn's first book of poetry, Some Words Spoken, will appear in December 2002, split with fellow author monica s. kuebler. Contact Cynthia at cyn@ihaveasecret.com