Poet Laureate Map of Canada
Who was the first provincial or territorial poet laureate?

PJ Johnson was formally invested as the Yukon Territory’s first Poet Laureate on July 1, 1994.

Glen Sorestad, poet and publisher, was named Poet Laureate of the Province of Saskatchewan in 2000.
What's Happening

Words Aloud at the Library

Sunday February 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. [details]
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
this project
generously supported by...

Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map pj johnson, Poet Laureate of the Yukon Kristan Anderson, Owen Sound Ontario Roland Pemberton - Poet Laureate of Edmonton, AlbertaBrad Cran - Poet Laureate of Vancouver, B.C. Poet Laureate of Newfoundland: Agnes Walsh Linda Rogers - Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. Douglas Lochhead Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia John B. Lee, Brantford Ontario Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa David Helwig, Prince Edward Island Robert Currie, Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan Gary Hyland, Poet Laureate, City of Moose Jaw, SK Poet Laureate of Cobalt Ann Margetson

Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Welcome to the Poet Laureate Map of Canada. This may very well be a world first. There are literary maps and poet maps, but we haven’t yet found a poet laureate map. Our map features a photo, bio and poem from Canada’s laureates, past and present, as well as links, and when available, audio and video files.

My initial reasons for producing the map were to showcase Canada’s poet laureates – municipal, provincial and federal - and to provide models for communities that want to have a poet laureate.

We welcome additions to the map - such as newly appointed or left out laureates (we’ve discovered 30 so far), as well as other suggestions or comments. Send us an email  to share your ideas.

I encourage you to find a way to insert poetry into the everyday.  Feast on these poems. Follow the links. Share them with your community, for poetry is truly a community beyond borders.

I hope this map will also provide a conversation among poetries, helping us to share the songs of our species. In my community, Owen Sound  City Council members will each read a poet laureate’s poem at Council meetings.

Elizabeth  Zetlin
Poet Laureate, City of Owen Sound, Ontario

 
feature poet

Dr. John  Smith

First Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island
 2002 - 2004
Dr. John Smith came to the province to join the faculty of Prince of Wales College in the 1960s and is the author of five volumes of poetry published over a twenty-year period.

For many years, he taught English at the University of Prince Edward Island and is now Professor Emeritus. His stature as a poet is recognized across the country.

Dr. John  Smith

[ read more]
 
© 2010 Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library | All Rights Reserved     
© 2010 Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library | All Rights Reserved