Search Location - Any -Canada Sort by RandomDate addedA -> ZZ -> A Apply Luljeta Lleshanaku Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in 1968 in Elbasan, Albania, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha’s autocratic communist rule… Robert W. Service Born in England to a Scottish family, Robert W. Service (1874-1958) emigrated to Canada as a young man. Dubbed the “Bard of the Yukon,” Service is… Zetta Elliott Born in Canada, Zetta Elliott moved to the US in 1994 to pursue her PhD in American Studies at NYU. Her poetry has been published in several… Durs Grünbein Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and now lives in Berlin and Rome. Since 2005, he has been a professor of poetics and aesthetics at the… Erin Robinsong Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. Her debut collection of poetry, Rag Cosmology, won… John Milton In an act of striking tenacity, the English poet John Milton (1608-1674) wrote his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost after he had gone blind, reciting… Robert Priest For decades Robert Priest has inspired students of all ages with his poetry presentations and workshops. Winner of the People's Poetry award,… Ruth Daniell Ruth Daniell is a speech arts teacher, editor, award-winning writer, and the author of The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press, 2019). Her… Yone Noguchi The influential Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) was the first poet born in Japan to publish in English. He moved to San Francisco in 1893, and his first… William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is closely connected to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads, a major work of the English… 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… Audre Lorde Audre Lorde, a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, dedicated her life and talent to confronting the injustices of racism,… Load More Language English
