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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 drama and on modern and contemporary poetry, along with a book on King Lear and translations of modern German poetry. He is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto whose teaching and research interests include modern American and British poetry, 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama, and Shakespeare.

 

  • Mining for Sun. London, On: Brick Books, 2000.
  • Near Finisterre. Toronto: St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1996.
  • Midland Swimmer. London, On: Brick Books, 1996.
  • Morning Watch. Véhicule Press, 1995.
  • Ashbourn Véhicule Press, 1986.

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  • Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2003.
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Lynn Crosbie has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto and is a Toronto-based writer. The author of five collections of poems, most recently, Missing Children (McClelland and Stewart, 2003), Crosby is also an anthologist, editing The Girl Wants To: Women's Representations of Sex and the Body (Coach House: 1993), Click: Becoming Feminists (MacFarlane Walter & Ross: 1997), and Plush:5 Gay Poets, with Michael Holmes (Coach House, 1995). She has written two novels, Paul's Case (Insomniac, 1997) and Dorothy L'Amour (HarperCollins, 1999), and a screenplay for Bruce McDonald's company, Shadow Shows. She is a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail.

 

  • Missing Children. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
  • Queen Rat: new and selected poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.
  • Pearl: poems. Concord, Ont.: Anansi, 1996.
  • I eat your flesh: poems. Toronto: Streetcar Editions, 1993.
  • Villain Elle. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1994.
  • Miss Pamela's Mercy. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.
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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, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, and The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. She was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction (1995), the City of Toronto Award (1996), and Guggenheim and Killam Fellowships, as well as National Magazine and Western Magazine awards for journalism. She has also edited numerous anthologies. She holds a Canada Research Chair in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and the Maclean Hunter Chair in Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

 

  • Sullivan, Rosemary. The Guthrie Road. Black Moss Press, 2009.
  • --. Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille. HarperCollins, 2006.
  • --. Cuba: Grace Under Pressure. McArthur & Co, 2003.
  • --. Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. Toronto: Harper Flamingo, 2001.
  • --. Shadow Maker: the Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2001.
  • --. The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 2000.
  • --. Blue Panic. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 1991.
  • --. The Space a Name Makes. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1986.
  • --, ed. Poetry by Canadian Women/ Oxford University Press, 1989.
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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 include the Governor-General's Award for Poetry (2001), a Bellagio (Italy) Center Fellowship (1998), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry (2002). He has also published a major critical book, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (University of Toronto Press, Summer 2002).

He is a member of the Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia, the League of Canadian Poets, the Modern Languages Association, the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, the Writer's Guild of Canada, and the Writers Union of Canada.

 

  • Blue. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 2001.
  • Beatrice Chancy. Victoria, BC: Polestar Book Publishers, 1999.
  • Execution Poems. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001.
  • Lush Dreams, Blue Exile. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1983.
  • Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues. Porters Lake, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1983.
  • Whylah Falls. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1990.

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  • Canadian Who's Who 2003 Vol. XXXVIII
  • Clarke, George Elliott. Whylah Falls. Polestar, 1990.
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For other poems, see the Griffin Prize

 

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 Sounds of Nature
  • Place
  • Pleasure Cruiser
  • Seven Drunks
  • The Guru
  • The Little Walls Before China
  • The Seer
  • The Sentinel
  • The Tidal Wave
  • What Way
  • What We Had
  • You That I Loved
  • Your Story

A. F. Moritz has published fifteen books of poems, which have earned the Griffin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and other honours. He has translated seven books of poetry and a novel from Spanish and French, and in collaboration with Theresa Moritz has written biographies of Emma Goldman and Stephen Leacock, and The Oxford Literary Guide to Canada. He holds a doctorate in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry.

 

  • Black Orchid. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1981.
  • Conflicting Desire Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2000.
  • Between the Root and the Flower. White Rock, BC: Blackfish Press, 1982.
  • Early Poems. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.
  • The End of the Age. Toronto: Watershed Books, 2002.
  • Houseboat on the Styx. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 1998.
  • Mahoning. London, ON: Brick Books, 1994.
  • Music and Exile. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1980.
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt. London, ON: Brick Books, 1999.
  • The Sentinal Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2008.
  • Signs and Certainties. Montreal: Villaneuve, 1979.
  • The Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • The Visitation. Toronto: Aya Press, (1983).

Sources:

  • Moritz, A.F. Mahoning. London: Brick Books, 1994.
  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001. li> Contemporary Poets, 7th ed. St. James Press, 2001.
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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 Hopkins for seven years before turning full-time to the writing of poetry. She was poet-in-residence for the Delaware State Arts Council in Wilmington from 1978 to 1981, at Bucknell University from 1993 to 1994, and the University of Western Ontario from 1995 to 1996, and she now has this position at the Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. Between her first volume of poems in 1980 and sixth volume, The Second Blush, in 2008, Molly Peacock has been, to use the title of one of her most moving poems, the "Good Girl" of modern American poetry. She has an inexhaustible capacity for nourishing the public life of the spirit through the love of poetry. From 1975 to 1989, her poetry took roots in eight years' creative study at two of the oldest American artists' colonies, MacDowell (in the Monadnock region, New Hampshire) and Yaddo (at Saratoga Springs, New York). Beginning in the mid-1980s, Molly Peacock served as visiting lecturer at the YMCA in New York, Hofstra University, Columbia University, Barnard College, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Unterberg Poetry Center, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her life became especially public when, from 1989 to 1995, she served as President of the Poetry Society of America. Molly Peacock then nurtured its transformative Poetry in Motion project into being. Many cities now offer poems freely to their citizens in subway cars and buses all over America. Over the years, she has received many awards and fellowships: Creative Artists Public Service (1977), Ingram Merrill Foundation (1981), New York Foundation for the Arts (1985, 1990), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1990), Lila Wallace Fellowship (1994), and Woodrow Wilson (five times).

Associated with the New Formalist movement of American women poets, Molly Peacock has a knack for writing so naturally that we may be surprised to find in her poems some difficult poetic forms (such as the rare telestich in "The Spell,", and the sonnet lurking in "The Lull"). Yet what makes Molly Peacock so wonderful a writer is that her poems make readers from all walks of life feel both that she confides in them, like a best friend, and that she is listening to them. She writes in How to Read a Poem ... and Start a Poetry Circle:

... the voice of the poem allows us to hear ourselves. It can be a great comfort to hear our own voices emanating through the letters of words that come from someone else. But it can also produce confusion, because we do not always allow ourselves to hear our inner voice and are alarmed by its sound. That is why we say our poets speak for us. Certain poems allow you to feel what you mean, even though you cannot dare to say what that is yourself.

To read the poems of Molly Peacock with care is to accept a dare. The risk that dare entails is a catch in the throat, and a sudden welling up of feelings we did not think we had.

Molly Peacock is married to Michael Groden, the eminent Joyce scholar, and they divide their time between Toronto and New York.

  • Peacock, Molly. And Live Apart: Poems. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980. PS 3566 .E15 A8 Robarts Library
  • --. Raw Heaven: Poems. New York: Random House, 1984. PS 3566 .E15 R3 Robarts Library
  • --. Take Heart. New York: Random House, 1989. PS 3566 .E15 T3 Robarts Library
  • --. "What the Mockingbird Said." In Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. Ed. James McCorkle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. 343-47. PS 325 .C68 Robarts Library
  • --. Original Love. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. PS 3566 .E15 O75 Robarts Library
  • Boisseau, Michelle. Understory. Introduced by Molly Peacock. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. PS 3552 .O53U53 Robarts Library
  • --. Paradise, Piece by Piece. Putnam, 1998. [Memoir, semi-fictional.] PS 3566 .E15 Z472 Robarts Library
  • --. "From Gilded Cage to Rib Cage." In After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition. Ed. Annie Finch. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line, 1999. 70-78. PS 325 .A28 Robarts Library
  • --. "One Green, One Blue: One Point about Formal Verse Writing and Another about Women Writing Formal Verse." In New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, History. Ed. R. S. Gwynn. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line, 1999. 181-86. PS 325 .E9 Robarts Library
  • --. How to Read a Poem ... and Start a Poetry Circle. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. PN 1590 .F55 T438 2000 Robarts Library
  • --. Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2002. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Toronto: Penguin, 2002. PS 3566 .E15 C67 Robarts Library.
  • --. The Second Blush: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. Also Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2008.
  • --, ed. The Private I: Privacy in a Public World. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2001. BF 637 .P74 P75 Robarts Library [Anthology of essays on being alone.]
  • --, Elise Paschen, and Neil Neches, eds. Poetry in Motion: 100 Poems from the Subways and Buses. New York: Norton, 1996. PN 6101 .P542 1996 Library of Congress
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John Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley, was a literary scholar, a numismatist, and a botanist. Born April 26, 1835, Warren was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he graduated B.A. in 1859 and MA one year later. Between 1659 and his death in 1895, Warren published a dozen volumes of poetry, the last two of which -- Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) and its second series (1895) -- enjoyed success. His greatest achievement was his The Flora of Cheshire, published only in 1899.

  • Garnett, Richard. "Warren, John Byrne Leicester, third Baron de Tabley (1835–1895)." Rev. Megan A. Stephan. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Sept. 2010.
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After taking his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University, Joseph Warren Beach returned to Minneapolis in 1907 to the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, his undergraduate alma mater. Starting as Assistant Professor, he became Associate Professor in 1917 and Professor in 1924. Beach chaired the English Department from 1939 to 1948, after which time he retired. An expert in many literary figures -- Henry James, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and nineteenth-century literature in general -- Beach had a special love for poetry. His The Making of the Auden Canon (1957) was a masterful study of how Auden revised his earlier-published poems as his view of the world changed. Beach also brought out two volumes of his own poetry, Sonnets of the Head and Heart (1903) and Involuntary Witness (1950). By his first wife, Elisabeth Northrop (1871-1917, m. 1907), he had two sons, Northrop (1912-) and Warren (1914-). His second wife was Dagmar Doneghy, who married him in 1918. His brief life in The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, 47 (1965): 596-97, tells us that outdoor camping was an important part of his life. His letters and papers are in the Library of Congress.

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The astronomer John Frederick William Herschel was born on March 7, 1792, in Slough, Buckinghamshire. He attended Dr. Gretton's School in Hitcham, Eton College (briefly), and St. John's College Cambridge first as a student (1809-13), and then as elected fellow, graduating with M.A. in 1816. Many honours came to him quickly. The Royal Society elected him a fellow in 1813, he received the Copley Medal in 1821, he became President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1827, and he was knighted in 1831. Herschel's research discoveries crisscrossed several fields, mathematics (differential calculus), chemistry, and astronomy, particularly in the last through his catalogues of double stars and nebulae, and his studies of Halley's comet in 1835-36 at the Cape of Good Hope. His major works were Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) and A Treatise on Astronomy (1833), later revised into one of the most celebrated scientific treatises ever published, Outlines of Astronomy (1849). Herschel's love of poetry emerged in his translation of works by Schiller, Bürger, Homer (the entire Iliad), and Dante. Certain of his poems came out in Essays (1857). Shortly after Herschel became Master of the Mint in 1850, he retired to Collingwood, at Hawkwood in Kent, with his wife, Margaret Brodie, whom he had married on March 3, 1829. He died there on May 11, 1871, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

  • C., A. M. "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William." The Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921-22. 714-19.
  • Herschel, Sir John Frederick William. Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, with other addresses and other pieces. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. sci RBSC 1 Fisher Rare Book Library
  • Letters and papers of Sir John Herschel: a guide to the manuscripts and microfilm. Ed. Paul Kesaris. Intro. Michael J. Crowe. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America, 1990. QB 36 .H59A4 1990 guide Gerstein Library
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Born June 3, 1771, Sydney Smith was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he took a B.A. in 1792 and an M.A. in 1796. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1796 and became a curate in Nether Avon, near Amesbury. Moving to Edinburgh as a tutor, Smith published his first book of sermons and married Catharine Amelia Pybus. During this period he co-founded and edited the Edinburgh Review, to which he contributed much of his life. By 1803 the Smiths had gone to London, where he achieved a reputation as an outstandingly witty preacher at such places as Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, the Foundling Hospital, and the Fitzroy Chapel. He lectured on moral philosophy at the Royal Institution from 1804 to 1806 and wrote his best-known work, Peter Plymley's Letters, on legalizing Roman Catholic worship. He served as priest at and lived near Foston-le-Clay, Yorkshire, in 1809, moved to Bristol to become a prebend in its cathedral in 1828, and three years later returned to London to take up a canonry at St Paul’s Cathedral. Besides his sermons and philosophic lectures, Smith's fame rests on his letters, and among them we find his occasional verse. He died at Green Street, London, on February 22, 1845, and interred at Kensal Green.