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News Opportunity to meet Greater Sudbury's Poet Laureate A ceremony to welcome the City of Greater Sudbury's Poet Laureate [details]

News The Saving Bannister 25th Annual Poetry Anthology Contest [details]

News Catch the Wave! The Spoken Word/Slam Program [details]

News PEN Canada's 25th anniversary It's PEN Canada's 25th anniversary, and we want to thank you for supporting our work. [details]

News Library Announces Kristan Anderson as Owen Sound Poet Laureate The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is pleased to announce that local spoken word poet Kristan Anderson has been selected as Owen Sound Poet Laureate 2009-2010. [details]

News Congratulations to Don McKay Congratulations to Don McKay of St. John’s, Newfoundland [details]

News Former Poet Laureate Celebrated PEI's Heritage Writer, teacher and former Prince Edward Island poet laureate Frank Ledwell died Aug. 14, 2008, in Charlottetown. His work celebrated the heritage and life of Prince Edward Island. [details]

News Poet Laureate Plants Trees As Poet Laureate of Brantford, and as a participant in Random Acts of Poetry, John B. Lee has planted four Poet Trees in the City of Brantford, each one dedicated to a poet from Ontario. [details]

News Britain's Poet Laureate Has Writer's Block British poet laureate Andrew Motion is planning to resign next year. And while he has long professed his desire to leave the lifetime appointment early, he is more anxious than ever to get back to living without the laurels. Motion, it seems, has developed a nasty case of writer's block and describes his time as poet laureate as having been "very, very damaging" to his work. "I dried up completely about five years ago," he told the British newspaper The Guardian, "and can't write anything except to commission." [details]