Shane Rhodes is a
Canadian poet.
Life
He graduated from the
University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
.
He is a two-time winner of the
Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work ''The Bindery'' won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the
Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and
Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on
First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry.
["Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008.]
Rhodes identifies as
bisexual
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...
.
["Seminal achievement includes local writers"]
''Xtra Ottawa
''Xtra Ottawa'' (formerly ''Capital Xtra'') was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was launched in 1993. Unlike its biweekly sister publications ''Xtra'' in Toronto and ''Xtra Vanc ...
'', April 5, 2007. His work was included in
John Barton and
Billeh Nickerson
Billeh Nickerson (born February 14, 1972) is a Canadian writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate.
Personal life
Nickerson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, grew up in Langley, British Columbia, lived in Toronto, Ontario, and currently ...
's 2007 anthology ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets''.
Awards
* Alberta Book Award for poetry, for ''The Wireless Room''
* 2003
Archibald Lampman Award, for ''Holding Pattern''
* 2008
Lampman-Scott Award, for ''The Bindery''
* The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review
* Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011)
* Winner of the 2018 City of Ottawa Book Award, for Dead White Me
Works
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Anthologies
* ''New Canadian Poetry''. Even Jones, ed. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.
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* ''The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008''.
Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster (born 1969) is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal.
History
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of Br ...
, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
* ''Best Gay Poetry 2008''.
Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Press: New York, 2008.
* ''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.'' Melissa Tuckey, ed.
University of Georgia Press, 2018.
References
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Living people
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
University of New Brunswick alumni
Bisexual men
Writers from Ottawa
Canadian LGBT poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
1973 births
Canadian bisexual writers