Carol Jago By this poet Lesson PlanOccasional Poetry: Amanda Gorman on the Occasion of an Inauguration Neil Surkan Neil Surkan is the current Poet Laureate of Nanaimo, BC. Born in Penticton, BC, he is the author of the poetry collections Empties (2026), Unbecoming… Vanessa Shields Shields is a poet who witnesses life through love-coloured glasses, doing her best to be kind, to be aware, to be a witness and to be compassionately… Nathaniel Mackey American poet, fiction writer, critic, and scholar, Nathaniel Mackey is the author of more than a dozen books. A graduate of Princeton and…