Search Location - Any -Canada Sort by RandomDate addedA -> ZZ -> A Apply Sally Ito Sally Ito is a Japanese Canadian poet and literary translator who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has three published books of poetry, Frogs… Letitia Elizabeth Landon Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was born in London, England. A precocious child who read from an early age, Landon published her first poem at… Shane Book Born in Peru, Shane Book is a film maker and award-winning poet. Infused with hip hop rhythms, his work reveals many influences, including Michael… Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (his real name was Wilhelm Apollinaris Kostrowitsky) was a poet of the avant-garde movement in France at the turn of the… Souvankham Thammavongsa Born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, Souvankham Thammavongsa was raised and educated in Toronto. She has written three poetry books,… June Jordan June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of ten books of poetry, seven collections of essays, two plays, a libretto, a novel, a… CA Conrad CAConrad is the author of nine books of poetry and essays. While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books) received the 2018 Lambda Award. A recipient… Joy Kogawa Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, poet and novelist Joy Kogawa was sent with her family to an internment camp for Japanese-Canadians during World… William Ernest Henley The English poet and critic William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) had such a charismatic, outsized personality that his friend Robert Louis Stevenson… Emily Brontë Best-known for her novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was born in Thornton, England. She was the second eldest of the famous… Thomas Wyatt The English lyrical poet Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) was an ambassador for the court of King Henry VIII and is rumoured to have had an affair with… Billy-Ray Belcourt Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, and a 2016 Rhodes Scholar who holds a M.St… Load More Language English
