Poet Laureate Map of Canada
How many poets laureate have been appointed throughout Canada so far?

33 including past and present laureates.
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2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners

2010 Canadian and International winners of the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. [details]
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.
E.E. Cummings
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map Candice James - Poet Laureate of New Westminster, B.C. Roger Nash, Sudbury, Ontario Jill Battson, Cobourg, Ontario pj johnson, Poet Laureate of the Yukon Kristan Anderson, Owen Sound Ontario Roland Pemberton - Poet Laureate of Edmonton, AlbertaBrad Cran - Poet Laureate of Vancouver, B.C. Poet Laureate of Newfoundland: Agnes Walsh Linda Rogers - Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. Douglas Lochhead, Sackville, New Brunswick Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia John B. Lee, Brantford Ontario Dionne Brand, Toronto, Ontario Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa Hugh MacDonald, Prince Edward Island Robert Currie, Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan Gary Hyland, Poet Laureate, City of Moose Jaw, SK Poet Laureate of Cobalt Ann Margetson

PEN Canada's 25th anniversary

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A message from Nelofer Pazira,
President, PEN Canada:

It's PEN Canada's 25th anniversary.  We need your help to ensure we are able to continue fulfilling our mandate.

Please consider joining one of Canada's leading human rights and literary organizations–PEN Canada–to help in the fight for freedom of expression. The global economic downturn has eroded PEN's donation base, and it needs your help to continue its important work.

During its first 25 years, PEN Canada has campaigned tirelessly for writers around the world like Aung San Suu Kyi, Ken Saro Wiwa, and Orhan Pamuk, and it has helped more than 50 exiled writers settle in Canada. In the past five years alone, PEN has helped more than 40 writers be released from prison. In Canada, it has actively battled censorship in more than 70 cases–from book seizures at the border, to censorship in libraries and schools, to legislation threatening the freedom of expression of all Canadians.

PEN Canada is playing a vital role in maintaining the strength of our democracy and in building civil societies everywhere, but today it needs your help. For $75 you can become a PEN Canada member ($25 for students). PEN welcomes everybody. To join PEN Canada, visit http://www.pencanada.ca/ and click on JOIN. If you do so between February 19th and midnight on March 1st, 2009, you will be eligible to win a limited edition copy of Margaret Atwood's The Door, valued at $500.

If you give more than $75 a year as either a writer member or an associate member, you are acknowledged as a member of the Free Expression Circle. All membership dues and donations receive a charitable tax receipt. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Earlier this month, PEN helped Chinese journalist Jiang Weiping join his family in Toronto. He arrived at the airport long after midnight and was embraced by his wife and daughter. In 2004, when Jiang was still incarcerated, they had left China secretly, unable to visit him or even to say they were leaving. "Although I was released from prison on January 4, 2006," he later said, "the day I arrived in Canada was my first real day of freedom."

To join or to donate, please visit the website: http://www.pencanada.ca/

Thank you!
 
 
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