Poet Laureate Map of Canada
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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

Elizabeth Zetlin

Elizabeth Zetlin

Poet Laureate of Owen Sound
  2007 - 2008

Liz Zetlin is a visual artist, filmmaker and poet. Best known as a “nature poet with a twist,” she plants garlic to form words of prayer, grows grassy punctuation marks in her hay field and writes odes to these “modulators of meaning.”

Her poetry latest poetry books are The Thing With Feathers (BuschekBooks) and Taking Root (Seraphim Editions). Her poetry videos, The Limestone Ghazals, were exhibited in Canada and Ireland as part of the Limestone Barrens Project. Her video “Nightwalk: Boreal Poetry Garden” was screened at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. She’s currently Owen Sound’s first Poet Laureate, co-artistic director of the Words Aloud Spoken Word Festival in Durham, and co-director of the Festival Documentary and Educational DVD. She lives in Markdale, Ontario.

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