Poets Timeline
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Bio Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ian Lancashire went to school at Churchill High School and received his B.A. Honours degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Manitoba in 1964. He received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) at the University of Toronto and became a lecturer in…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Dutton, Paul. Oralizations, Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005. [recording] CD 54055 Music Library --. Several Women Dancing. Toronto: Mercury Press, 2002. [novel] --. Mouth Pieces OHM Éditions, 2000. [recording] --. Partial Additives. Toronto: Underwhich Editions; London, England…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio John Reibetanz has published five collections of poetry. The most recent, Mining for Sun, was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award in 2001. He was awarded First Prize in the Petra Kenney Poetry Competition in 2003. In addition to poetry, his publications include essays on Elizabethan…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Wayne Clifford is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, including the goundbreaking sonnet sequence The Exile's Papers, which currently extends over three volumes. After attaining his M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1969, he…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Zieroth, David. Berlin Album. Edmonton, Alberta: Rubicon Press, 2009. Chapbook. --. Clearing: Poems from a Journey. Toronto: Anansi, 1973. --. Crows Do Not Have Retirement. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 2001. --. Dust in the Brocade. North Vancouver, B.C.: The Alfred Gustav…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Boughn, Michael. 22 Skidoo / SubTractions. Toronto: Book Thug, 2009. PS8553 .O7915 A62 2009 Robarts Library --. Cosmographia: A Post-lucretian Faux Micro-epic. Toronto: Book Thug, 2010. PS8553 .O7915 C67 2010 Robarts Library --. Dislocation Flutter. Amman, Jordan: Oasii Press,…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Rosemary Sullivan has published ten books of creative non-fiction and poetry. Her works include Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (2006), Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life, Labyrinth of Desire: Women Passion and Romantic Obsession,…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Molly Peacock was born June 30, 1947, in Buffalo, New York, and grew up there. After obtaining her B.A. (magna cum laude) from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969, and her M.A. (with honors) at Johns Hopkins University, she worked in academic administration at Johns…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Florence Anthony, the poet, is known mainly by her pseudonym Ai. For more poems by her, see the Academy of America Poets Grandfather Says Motherhood, 1951 and The Poetry Foundation Conversation Cuba, 1962 Disregard Killing Floor Passing Through…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio For other poems, see the Griffin Prize Thou Poem and The Poetry Foundation And the One Breath At Two Solemn Musicks Better Days Busman's Honeymoon Cleanliness Häagen-Dazs Freezer Truck Blocking View of Ottawa River While Its Compressor Blots the…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, born in Arezzo, Italy, in 1949, grew up in Montreal, Toronto, and Baltimore, and then moved to Toronto in 1967, where he studied as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto until the early 1970s. In his first career, as poet and literary editor, he paused…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio For more poems, see The Poetry Archive: Letter to a City Under Siege The Academy of America Poets For the Stranger Sequestered Writing The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] and The Poetry Foundation As Children Together Kalaloch…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Agnew, Wendy. The Lillian Lectures. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1998.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio For more poems, see The Poetry Foundation Angel At the Bambi Motel Black Fairy Tale Boardwalk Catchpenny Road Cemetery Reef Death Dress Fabergé's Egg Glass-Bottom Boat Globe Letter from Swan’s Island Letter in July Mansion Beach Mutoscope…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, in 1953, and went through high school in Tucson, Arizona, where he entered the University of Arizona. In 1971 he married Ruth Dawson, a poet, and took a B.A. at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, at which he also taught for one year. During…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Jane Eaton Hamilton is a professional writer of poetry, short fiction, novels and non-fiction, and a master gardener. She has worked as a photographer focusing on art and newborns. As a lesbian activist who came out in 1982, she helped bring same-sex marriage to Canada (Barbeau v.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Barron, Jonathan. "Annie Finch." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 282: New Formalist Poets. Ed. Jonathan N. Barron and Bruce Meyer. Gale Group, 2003: 91-101. Finch, Annie. Calendars. Dorset, Vt.: Tupelo Press, 2003. --. Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work.…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement New FormalistLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Bruce Meyer, a professor of English at Laurentian University at Georgian College, has published 15 volumes of poems, edited many literary anthologies, and authored works of criticism. He is Artistic Director, Leacock Summer Literary Festival and frequently broadcasts on CBC Radio and TV…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement PostmodernismLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Aaron Rafi is a Canadian poet, now living in Toronto, best known for his Surviving the Censor: The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam (2006). Its 48 prose poems are spoken by the Russian poet Osip, his wife Nadezhda, a voice from Stalin's transit camps, and a researcher. In November 2006…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio George Elliott Clarke is the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His works include the poem-novel, Whylah Falls (1990), the narrative lyric sequence, Execution Poems (2001), and the verse-play and opera, Beatrice Chancy (1999). Clarke's awards…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Venright, Steve. Floors of Enduring Beauty. Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2007. --. The Illustrated Venright English Dictionary. Toronto: BookThug, 2004. canlit pam 03508 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library --. It lies on the grass now and then ... [Toronto: CURVD H&Z, 19]83…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. --. Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994. PS 8563 R3836R47 Robarts Library --. Crossing the Straits. Toronto: St. Thomas Poetry…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Margaret Christakos teaches creative writing at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. She also works as a poetry advisor/mentor with WIER (Writers in Electronic Residence), with the MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber, and with Diaspora Dialogues. From 1992…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio McGimpsey, David. Lardcake: Poems. Toronto: ECW, 1996. PS8575 .G54 L38 Robarts Library --. Dogboy. Toronto: ECW, 1998. PS8575 .G54 D63 Robarts Library --. Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture. [non-fiction] Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 2000.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
