Poet Laureate Map of Canada
What is the origin of the term laureate?

From the laurel, in ancient Greece, sacred to Apollo, and was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes. Wikipedia
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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Walt Whitman
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map Roger Nash, Sudbury, Ontario To be appointed, Cobourg, Ontario 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, Sackville, New Brunswick Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia John B. Lee, Brantford Ontario Dionne Brand, Toronto, Ontario Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa Hugh MacDonald, Prince Edward Island Robert Currie, Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan Gary Hyland, Poet Laureate, City of Moose Jaw, SK Poet Laureate of Cobalt Ann Margetson

Thoughts on Poetry

For many thousands of years language has stored up not just a map of all the places the human mind and heart can go but an instinct, a hunger for those routes and places – like a dog’s hunger to go running and sniffing.  Poetry is language off the leash, exercising its muscle and intricate skills.  After a lot of dull usage – political speeches, sales pitches, literary theory – it can hardly restrain itself and it pulls us along into the fresh air and strange twilight colours, into sudden memories of our early lives.  It can take us to the limits of our world, into griefs and ecstasies, even out into madness and non-human experiences, if we want it to and it’s in the mood.

Poetry is an ageless ancient guide we can team up with to discover vantage points that reveal the broad landscape we’ve been living in blindly, piecemeal; with its keen senses it brings the world to life for us with more intensity than we’ve ever known; it surprises us with the energies in wild things, including our dreams and passions; it elicits from deep within us our appetite for play, adventure, love and invention, and our capacity to be at home in the ever-changing world as it really is.

John Steffler
21 January, 2008

About Poetry

 

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry has nothing to do with poetry. Poetry is how the air goes green before thunder, is the sound you make when you come, and why you live and how you bleed, and the sound you make or don't make when you die.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
You can study it if you want
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic

 
 
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