Louis Cabri has worked in bicycle rentals and construction, has been a band member (The Hemidrones, Toronto), private tutor, bookstore clerk, festival organizer, secretary for care, editor for Oxfam, programmer for the Southern Africa Education Trust Fund, university student and teacher. With Rob Manery, he founded the ‘experimental writing group’ (Ottawa, 1986–1995), producing literary events that include the ongoing Transparency Machine reading series and hole chapbooks (formerly a magazine). Since 1997, Louis has curated PhillyTalks, a poets’ dialogue/newsletter series. Currently he is writing Poetics of Political Economy, a dissertation, and commutes between Calgary and Philadelphia.
