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    The Poet Laureate of Toronto is the city's literary ambassador and advocate for poetry, language and the arts. The poet laureate's mandate includes the...
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    A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...
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    George Elliott Clarke (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in...
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  • The Poet Laureate of Ontario (French: Poète officiel de l’Ontario) is the poet laureate for the province of Ontario in Canada. The position was established...
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  • This is a list of municipal poets laureate in the province of Ontario, Canada. The city of Barrie has had four poets laureate Tyneisha Ternent (2022–present)...
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    Anne Michaels (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    Award for Infinite Gradation, her first volume of non-fiction. Michaels was the poet laureate of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2019, and she is...
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    1939) is a Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and critic born in Toronto, Ontario. He is also a children's writer, well known for his book of children's rhymes...
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    Dionne Brand (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and first Black Poet Laureate....
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  • poet, educator, and feminist Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), US poet James...
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  • portal Poet Laureate of Toronto Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Municipal Poets Laureate in British Columbia, Canada Municipal Poets Laureate in Ontario...
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  • Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    - December 22, 2019) was an Italian-Canadian poet. In 2005, he became the second Poet Laureate of Toronto. Born in Arezzo, Italy, his family immigrated...
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  • Provincial Poet Laureate PJ Yukon has held the office since 1994. Poetry portal Poet Laureate of Toronto Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Municipal Poets Laureate...
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    Lillian Allen (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    Allen was named to a three-year term as Poet Laureate of Toronto. 1983 Rhythm an' Hardtimes 1984 The Teeth of the Whirlwind 1987 If You See Truth 1991...
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  • Marty Gervais (category 20th-century Canadian poets)
    Governor General's Award winning poet laureate of Toronto, George Elliott Clarke, reading his work. He was joined by poets laureate from Barrie, Ontario, Edmonton...
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    A. F. Moritz (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    Awards for The New Measures. In 2019, Moritz was named as the new Poet Laureate of Toronto. In May 2019 the Redpath Sugar company decided to withdraw their...
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  • Canadian poet. Born in Toronto, Ontario to English immigrant parents, Smith earned a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto. He then...
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  • in Toronto Parachute School of Toronto Plague City: SARS in Toronto Poet Laureate of Toronto Proposal for the Province of Toronto R. v. Church of Scientology...
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    Anna Minerva Henderson (category Canadian women poets)
    by George Elliot Clarke who at the time was serving as the Poet Laureate of Toronto. In 2006, Clarke published "Anna Minerva Henderson: An Afro-New Brunswick...
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  • Di Brandt (category Municipal Poets Laureate in Canada)
    stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Brandt grew up in Reinland...
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  • John Steffler (category Canadian Parliamentary Poets Laureate)
    is a Canadian poet and novelist. He served as Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008. John Steffler was born in Toronto, Ontario, on November...
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  • Penn Kemp (category Municipal Poets Laureate in Canada)
    sponsored her tour of Mumbai colleges and universities. She was London's inaugural Poet Laureate, serving from 2010 to 2013 and University of Western Ontario's...
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  • Clarke, who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, graduated with an English...
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    Carol Ann Duffy (category British Poets Laureate)
    Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009...
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  • Program; The Skin of Culture Dionne Brand (B.A., M.A., Ph.D) – poet, novelist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Poet Laureate of Toronto for a three-year...
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  • Canadian poet, writer, and essayist, who served as poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta. She has published 12 collections of poetry and a collection of essays...
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  • Chimwemwe Undi (category Municipal Poets Laureate in Canada)
    1995) is a Canadian poet and lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is Canada's current Parliamentary Poet Laureate, and was Poet Laureate of Winnipeg from 2022...
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  • Olive Senior (category Poets laureate)
    Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2021, serving in the post until 2024. Born in rural Jamaica in Trelawny, Cockpit Country, Olive Senior was the seventh of...
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    Randell Adjei (category Poets Laureate of places in Canada)
    Randell Adjei is a Canadian poet who was named in April 2021 as the first Poet Laureate of Ontario. Primarily a spoken word poet, Adjei published his debut...
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    Conrad Aiken (category Poets Laureate of Georgia (U.S. state))
    was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published...
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