Search Location - Any -Canada Sort by RandomDate addedA -> ZZ -> A Apply Queen Elizabeth I One of history’s most powerful women, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She ascended to the… Afua Cooper Born and raised in Jamaica, Afua Cooper moved to Canada as a young woman. Cooper has a PhD in history and she has written extensively on the history… Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye is an American poet who was born, in 1952, to an American mother and a Palestinian father in Missouri. An internationally loved… Salima Tourkmani-MacDonald Salima Tourkmani-MacDonald is a poet and performer of Algerian-Canadian ancestry, from Riverview, New Brunswick. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in… William Butler Yeats The first person from Ireland to win the Nobel Prize, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great intellectual figures of the 20th… Theodore Roethke Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Theodore Roethke studied at the University of Michigan and Harvard before beginning his writing career. Roethke maintained… Angelic Goldsky Angelic Goldsky (they/them) is a queer non binary Jewish spoken word poet and community organizer. Angelic creates work around… Bernard Ferguson Bernard Ferguson (he/him and they/them) is a Bahamian poet, essayist and MFA candidate at New York University. Winner of the 2019 92y Discovery… Benjamin Hertwig Benjamin Hertwig is a National Magazine Award–winning writer, painter, and ceramicist, born and raised under big prairie skies and currently living… Lorna Goodison Lorna Goodison is an internationally acclaimed poet who served as Jamaica’s poet laureate from 2017 to 2020. In personal stories of her family and in… Cynthia Cruz Cynthia Cruz is the author of six books of poetry that examine the violence of poverty. Her latest collection, Guidebooks for the Dead, is about how… Rosemary Griebel Born in the farming community of Castor, Alberta, Rosemary Griebel grew up on the prairies. Currently Special Projects Manager with the Calgary… Load More Language English
