EVENT RECAP | Reverie: Issue 04 Launch Party!

By Jen Jakob

Ottawa’s very own Art House Café was filled from door to door with contributors, friends, and family to celebrate the launch of flo. Literary Magazine’s fourth issue, Reverie. Despite it being a dark and stormy night, the café gallery was bustling with life and support for the local arts and literary scene at the heart of the capital city.

flo.’s poetry editor, Jen Jakob, reads their editor’s note from issue 04, Reverie.

(photo courtesy of Katrina Wilcox)

Reverie featured twenty-one local authors’ poetry and prose, as well as the work of Ottawa-based artist Sierra McLean, whose visual art made Issue 04 even more vibrant with an eye-catching red and green book cover. Ten of our contributors read their work aloud at our Art House Cafe launch party, giving a refreshing new perspective to the work they submitted to the magazine.

Jo Samson reads their poem, “Burnt Loaf,” to a crowd of eager listeners.

(photo courtesy of Katrina Wilcox)

Speaking of refreshments, Art House Café served two special drinks to celebrate flo.’s newest volume, the “Parking-Lot Memories” mocktail and the “November Memories” cocktail, as the café’s own contribution to the collection of the night’s reveries.

The signature cocktails of the night crafted by Art House’s own Nav! (aka @navneel_001 on Instagram)

With the atmosphere complete with a poetic downpour of rain and delicious drinks, the stage was set for our launch party to be one for the books. We’d like to thank all our contributors, past and present, for your continued support and for sharing your talent with us. We could not have gotten here without you!

Art House’s black brick facade reads “The Art House Cafe” in white lettering while rain pours over Dundonald Park in the background.

(photo courtesy of Katrina Wilcox)

See you next issue!