Municipal poets laureate in Ontario explained
This is a list of municipal poets laureate in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Barrie
The city of Barrie has had four poets laureate Tyneisha Ternent (2022 - present), Victoria Butler (2018 – 2022), Damian Lopes (2014 – 2018), and Dr. Bruce Meyer (2010-2014).[1]
Brantford
The city of Brantford named John B. Lee poet laureate in perpetuity in 2005.[2]
Cobalt
The town of Cobalt named Ann Margetson poet laureate [3]
Cobourg
Cobourg’s poets laureate are Jessica Outram (2019 – 2022), Ted Amsden (2011 – 2018), Jill Battson (2009 – 2011), and Eric Winter (1997 – 2009) [4]
Dufferin County
Dufferin County's poets laureate is Harry Posner (2017–present) [5]
Kingston
Kingston’s poets laureate are Jason Heroux (2019 – present), Helen Humphreys (2015 – 2019), and Eric Folsom (2011 – 2015).[6]
London
London’s poets laureate are Tom Cull (2016 – present), and Penn Kemp (2011 – 2013)[7] [8]
Mississauga
Mississauga’s poets laureate program was created in 2015. Poets are required to produce at least three poems for city-determined events annually, and read at civic events.[9] [10] Most serve a 2-year term, with Ayomide Bayowa being assigned the role for 30 months, due to delays in selection due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
Norfolk County
In Norfolk County John B. Lee was appointed in 2011.[2]
Ottawa
Ottawa’s poets laureate are Albert Dumont (Anglophone) (2021-2022) and Gilles Latour (Francophone) (2021-2022), Margaret Michèle Cook (Francophone) and Diana Young (Anglophone) (2019 – 2021), Andrée Lacelle (Francophone) and Jamaal Jackson Rogers (Anglophone) (2017 – 2019).[18]
Owen Sound
Owen Sound’s poets laureate are Rebecca Diem (2024 - 2025), Richard-Yves Sitoski (2019 – 2023), Lauren Best (2017-2019), Rob Rolfe & Larry Jensen (2015 – 2017), Terry Burns (2013 – 2014), Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (2011 – 2012), Kristan Anderson (2008 – 2010), Liz Zetlin (2007 – 2008).[19] [20]
Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury’s poets laureate are Kyla Heming (2022 – present), Vera Constantineau (2020 – 2022), Chloé LaDuchesse (2018 – 2020), Kim Fahner (2016 – 2018), Thomas Leduc (2014 – 2015), Daniel Aubin (2012 – 2013), and Roger Nash (2010 – 2011).[21] [22] Prior to its amalgamation into Greater Sudbury, the City of Sudbury named Robert Zenik (1986 – 1988) as its first and only Poet Laureate.[23]
Toronto
The Poet Laureate of Toronto program was established in 2001, naming Dennis Lee as the first poet laureate.[24] Successors include: A. F. Moritz (2019 – 2022), Anne Michaels (2016 – 2019), George Elliott Clarke (2012 – 2015), Dionne Brand (2009 – 2012), and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (2004 – 2009).
The title of "Poet Laureate of Emery," referring to the Emery Village community in the former borough of North York, was created by then-Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti. Dr. Laurence Hutchman was given the title in 2017.[25]
Windsor
The city of Windsor poets laureate are Mary Ann Mulhern (2019 – 2022), Marty Gervais (2011 – 2019) and Vanessa Shields (April 2022- September 2022).[26]
Woodstock
The city of Woodstock posthumously named Barry C. Butson poet laureate emeritus.[27]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Poet Laureate. www.barrie.ca.
- Web site: Brantford's Poet Laureate coming to Sarnia. theobserver.
- Web site: Poets laureate compare notes in Halifax . 2010-07-15 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20221220190001/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/poets-laureate-compare-notes-in-halifax-1.975439 . 2022-12-20 . live .
- Web site: Poet Laureate. July 22, 2020. www.cobourg.ca.
- Web site: Harry Posner. Liz. Beatty. September 16, 2017. In The Hills.
- Web site: Poet Laureate - City of Kingston. www.cityofkingston.ca.
- Web site: How the city has inspired London's poet laureate . 2018-06-02 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20221003175503/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-poet-laureate-bad-animals-1.4688043 . 2022-10-03 . live .
- Web site: Poet Laureate | London Arts Council. LAC official site.
- News: Deschamps . Tara . Mississauga's first poet laureate pens poems to city . 3 September 2022 . Toronto Star . Torstar . 17 August 2015 . Toronto ON.
- News: Kopun . Francine . From troubled Mississauga teen to poet laureate . 3 September 2022 . Toronto Star . Torstar . 7 May 2017 . Toronto ON.
- Web site: Mississauga Welcomes Globally Recognized Poet Laureate . City of Mississauga . Corporation of the City of Mississauga . 3 September 2022 . Mississauga ON . 10 November 2021.
- News: Khalil . Nouman . UofT student Wali Shah named Poet Laureate of Mississauga . 3 September 2022 . Mississauga News . Metroland Media Group . 2 May 2017 . Mississauga ON.
- News: Hay . Susan . Mississauga man turning adversity into inspiration . 3 September 2022 . Global News . Corus Entertainment . 20 March 2017 . Toronto ON.
- News: Cornwell . Steve . 'We're not cancelling Canada Day': Mississauga changes July 1 plans after residential school grave findings . 3 September 2022 . Mississauga News . Metroland Media Group . 30 June 2021 . Mississauga ON.
- News: Martin . Mitchell . Poet Ayomide Bayowa opens up about Mississauga poet laureate honour . 3 September 2022 . CityNews Toronto . Rogers Media . 13 November 2021 . Toronto ON.
- News: Angubua . Jonathan Divine . Ayomide Bayowa: Mississauga's poet laureate leaves his legacy through verse . 3 September 2022 . The Medium . The Medium . 31 January 2022 . Mississauga ON.
- Web site: Aschaiek . Sharon . U of T Mississauga student aims to inspire as the city's poet laureate . U of T News . University of Toronto . 3 September 2022 . Toronto ON . 1 December 2021.
- Web site: Poets Laureate. verseottawa.ca.
- Web site: Poet laureate's term extended; legacy project launching Tuesday. owensoundsuntimes.
- Web site: Owen Sound Library Appoints New Poet Laureate . owensoundsuntimes.
- Web site: Kyla Heyming Selected as Greater Sudbury's Seventh Poet Laureate. www.greatersudbury.ca.
- Web site: Sudbury names its 6th poet laureate. Alana. Pickrell. March 12, 2020. Northern Ontario.
- News: November 10, 1986 . Laureate will hymn blessings of Sudbury . The Sudbury Star.
- Web site: Poet Laureate . City of Toronto . 18 August 2017 . 8 August 2022.
- News: Delaney . Sean . Insightful impressions from Emery's new Poet Laureate . 3 September 2022 . Emery Village Voice . Emery Village Voice Ltd. . June 2017 . Toronto ON . Dr. Laurence Hutchman received the high honour of the evening, acclaimed as Poet Laureate of Emery. The office of Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti presented Hutchman with an official plaque from the city..
- Web site: Poet Laureate & Storytellers. www.citywindsor.ca.
- News: Rivers . Heather . He is known as the people's poet' . 8 August 2022 . Woodstock Sentinel Review . 18 July 2018.