Search Location - Any -Canada Sort by RandomDate addedA -> ZZ -> A Apply Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was a celebrated poet, memoirist and children’s book author. Born in 1936 in DePew, New York, she grew up in Buffalo, and her… Doyali Islam Canadian poet Doyali Islam is the author of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted heft (McClelland & Stewart, 2019), a book that was also… Wakefield Brewster In January 1999, Wakefield Brewster stepped onto his first stage as a Poet and Spoken Word Artist. Today, he is known as one of Canada’s most… Andrew Warner After becoming the youngest poet to win a provincial and national spoken word championship in the same year (2014), Andrew Warner has published four… Jordan Abel Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer currently completing his PhD at Simon Fraser University, where he focuses on digital humanities and Indigenous… Jessie Jones Jessie Jones grew up on the Prairies, spent a decade on Vancouver Island, and now resides in Montreal. Her writing has appeared in publications… Majzoob Tabrizi Mohammad Majzoob Tabrizi was a seventeenth century Sufi poet and mystic from Tabriz. In poetic style, he was the follower of Hafiz. Tabrizi, a Shiite… Allen Ginsberg Born in Newark, New Jersey, Allen Ginsberg had a remarkable influence on late-20th-century popular culture, inspiring not only generations of poets… Alexander Pope Born in London, the English poet and translator Alexander Pope (1688-1744) perfected the use of the heroic couplet—a sequence of rhyming pairs of… Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was born in Calcutta, India, and wrote in Bengali. An… Emily Novalinga Poet, storyteller and teacher born in Puvirnituq (Nunavik) in 1954—died in Montréal (Québec) in 2009. Emily Novalinga was born in 1954 in Puvirnituq… Steven Ross Smith Steven Ross Smith was Banff Poet Laureate 2018-21. He is a poet, fiction writer, and arts journalist, currently living in Victoria. His latest… Load More Language English
