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.
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2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners

2010 Canadian and International winners of the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. [details]
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map Candice James - Poet Laureate of New Westminster, B.C. Roger Nash, Sudbury, Ontario Jill Battson, 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

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers

Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C.
  2009 - 2011

Linda Rogers, Victoria’s second poet laureate for Victoria, describes herself as having a chequered career (“the word means going downhill out of control!”) as a teacher, writer, broadcast journalist, performance artist, mother, wife and grandmother. She co-writes songs with her husband Rick van Krugel the legendary blues mandolinist and Chris Trygg of Light Sweet Crude and buzzes 24/7 organising her city into one big poetry collective. In 2000, she was Canada's People's Poet.

Plans for spring and summer, 2009 include the birth of Ruin and Beauty, an album of songs, Muscle Memory, poems, and The Third Day Book, the second in her Empress trilogy of novels from Cormorant books. She has just put together an anthology of Victoria painters and poets called Framing the Garden, one of her poet laureate projects, which will be out in the year 2010. Other Poet Laureate initiatives include Fresh! an art and poetry exhibition, working with street kids and schools, writing songs for the Victoria children's Choir, and more.

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