Poets

Laurie Anne Fuhr

Laurie Anne Fuhr is a multimodal poet of page, screen, and stage, and a singer-songwriter based in Calgary. Her work merges Modernist-influenced free…

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is an internationally known performer and writer of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, the author of ten books of poetry and, most recently, a…

Al Purdy

Born in Wooler, Ontario, Al Purdy is considered one of Canada’s most popular 20th century poets. Among numerous awards and honours, Purdy received…

Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan was born and raised in rural Nova Scotia and eventually settled in New Brunswick, holding the post of Writer-in-Residence at the…

T.L. Murphy

Tim Murphy grew up in North Carolina and attended Eckerd College in St.Petersburg, Florida.  He immigrated to Canada in 1978. He worked briefly…

Melissa Powless Day

Ilya Kaminsky

Born in Ukraine (formerly the Soviet Union), Ilya Kaminsky lost most of his hearing as a child. In 1992, at age sixteen, his family moved to the…

Megan Fennya Jones

Megan Fennya Jones’s poetry has appeared in publications across North America including Poetry Northwest, Room Magazine, and PRISM International, in…

Donato Mancini

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Donato Mancini is the author of books and chapbooks of poetry and text-based visual art, including same diff,…

Russell Atkins

Russell Atkins is a poet, playwright and composer born in Ohio in 1926, and a leader of the Black avant-garde. Raised on Cleveland's east side by…

Halyna Kruk

Halyna Kruk was born in Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of five books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and four children’s books.…

Teva Harrison

Teva Harrison was an artist, writer, and cartoonist. Her debut collection of poetry Not One of These Poems is About You, was published posthumously…