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Sheri-D Wilson
Sheri-D Wilson, CM D. Litt, (aka "The Mama of Dada") is a Canadian poet, spoken word artist, educator, speaker, producer and activist. From 2018-2020, Sheri-D Wilson was Poet Laureate of Calgary. In 2019 Sheri-D was appointed one of the country’s highest honours, The Order of Canada, for her contributions as a spoken word Poet and her leadership in the spoken word community. In 2017, she received her Doctor of Letters—Honoris Causa from Kwantlen University. In 2015 Sheri-D was awarded with The City of Calgary Arts Award, for her contributions as an artist and community activist and was named, Best of Calgary many times. In 2019, her play, "A Love Letter to Emily Carr," was produced by Handsome Alice Theatre in Calgary and published by Frontenac Press. Her collection, "A Book of Sensations," addresses our relationship with the earth. Her 9th poetry collection, "OPEN LETTER: Woman Against Violence Against Women," tackles difficult terrain. Conceived from improvisation, this co ...
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The Raving Poets
The Raving Poets was a collective of poets and musicians who held a series of live, weekly poetry with music events in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It ran from 2000 to 2010. Origins The Raving Poets had several open mic ‘music and poetry’ precedents in Edmonton, but the actual first ‘music ''with'' poetry’ event happened in the summer of the year 2000. That year, three of the ‘founding fathers’ were board members with thStroll of Poets Society an Edmonton poetry group that hosted two annual reading series. Mark Kozub was president, Thomas Trofimuk, Volunteer Coordinator and Gordon McRae, Treasurer. The Board was tasked with finding ways to expand and revitalize the Society, which faced declining membership. During the May 4th, 2000 Stroll of Poets board meeting, in keeping with the expansion mandate, three new "Subsidiary Roles" were created, Media Liaison, Liaison with other Arts Groups and Open Stage Coordinator. Though both Mark and Thomas were optioned for sharing t ...
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21st-century Canadian Women Writers
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Poets Laureate Of Calgary
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For insta ...
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Members Of The Order Of Canada
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This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. Surrealist poets * Will Alexander (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright * Louis Aragon (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review ''Littérature'' * Braulio Arenas (1913–1988) - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty" * André Breton (1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism * Jorge Cáceres (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group * Jibanananda Das ((17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) - indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language * Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder ...
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Canadian Women Poets
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ...
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