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  List of Lists
List of Canadian Ministers of Manpower and Immigration
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/listoflists.html   (2023 words)

  
 Poet -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Poets exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language, but the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity.
Once they have established their name, poets may achieve a kind of alternative aristocracy, but the poets who manage to achieve real prosperity directly through the practice of their profession are certainly in the minority, hence poetry's continued association with Bohemianism.
Poets, however, tend to be either on the fringes of or at the very center of their culture.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Poet   (831 words)

  
 List of poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.
Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet and ruler
Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec signer-songwriter and poet
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_poets   (1004 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language.
For this reason, poets occupy a peculiar position in society, even when compared to other artists, tending to reside on the fringes of their culture.
In the east, poets were similarly maintained by royal patronage, and those of high birth were expected to develop this skill alongside many others.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Poet   (425 words)

  
 poet
Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse.
Poets are often regarded as imaginative thinkers or writers.
Poets day is a reference to Friday in workplaces which have a shorter working day at the end of the week.
www.paleorama.com /Eponyms-P/poet.php   (417 words)

  
 List of Canadian poets: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marilyn Bowering (Marilyn Bowering: marilyn bowering (born 1949) is a canadian poet and novelist....
Barry Dempster (Barry Dempster: barry dempster (born in scarborough, ontario) is a canadian poet and novelist...
Cornelia Hoogland (Cornelia Hoogland: cornelia hoogland (born 1952) is a canadian poet....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_canadian_poets   (1624 words)

  
 Canadian Literature Links
The League of Canadian Poets is national organization service published and practising poets in Canada.
A large selection of contemporary and 19th century Canadian poets with biographies, bibliographies, and general information presented by the University of Toronto English Library.
Quoted from site "Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) is a biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/canadian_literature   (910 words)

  
 EPC Connects: Related Listservs
This mailing list was created in February 1995 to provide a forum for discussion of hypertext fiction, hypertext and literary studies, and hypertext theory.
List geared for an audience with diverse professional backgrounds united by an interest in literature, poetry and the arts.
The Nous Refuse Discussion List was one of the ground-breaking lists in poetics.
wings.buffalo.edu /epc/connects/lists.html   (206 words)

  
 List of Canada-related topics : QuicklyFind Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
List of elections in the Province of Canada
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
www.quicklyfind.com /info/List_of_Canada-related_topics.htm   (88 words)

  
 Critical Episodes in Montreal Poetry of the 1940s
As the lyric and subjective modes took over Canadian poetry during the late fifties and largely dominated until Margaret Atwood began her interrogation of subjectivity, the ’forties came to be seen as the decade in which the possibilities of such lyricism were first explored.
To speak of the "generation" of the Canadian ’forties is immediately misleading, though, not only because the poets were of various age and sensibility but also because their degrees of generational consciousness were different.
Smith ignore the colonialism that stamps the work of Canadian poets, particularly the writers of the cosmopolitan group?…Those poets who continued the cosmopolitan tradition were approximately a decade late in acclaiming the work of Spender and Auden, Barker and Thomas.
www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol41/critical_episodes_in_montreal_poetry.htm   (9051 words)

  
 Calgary Public Library Link Library: Poetry
Canadian Poets Online: guide to twentieth-century Canadian poets in English produced by the University of Calgary English Dept. It is searchable by timeline and region.
League of Canadian Poets: has information on awards, biographical information on members, National Poetry Month, and reviews on recent poetry books.
Poet's Corner: Over 6700 works in English by 780 poets are available full text and searchable by author, subject and title/first line.
calgarypubliclibrary.com /links/lkpoem.htm   (321 words)

  
 Poets Against the War
Poets Against the War is part of, and helped to inspire, a series of interconnected movements.
Presenting poets both new and established, this collection is in the tradition of our nation's great works of dissent and creative democracy.
100 Poets against the war, 100 Poets against the war redux and 100 Poets against the war 3.0 were designed to be printed off, copied double-sided and distributed as chapbooks.
www.poetsagainstthewar.org /worldpoets.asp   (683 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Where the Words Come from: Canadian Poets in Conversation: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While the subtitle "Canadian Poets in Conversation" might sound like a series of tea and biscuit moments, be warned, not all interviews were done face to face.
To answer Bowering's question as to how the writing of poetry has changed over the years, Avison is especially enlightening: she says she never applied for a CC grant and was (frankly) taken aback the first time she ever heard of a creative writing class ("such a class").
There are some things a poet would only say to another poet, and we, as readers "listening in," gain from their exchanges.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0889711844   (1664 words)

  
 the League of Canadian Poets
CBC Radio hosts the Annual Poetry Face-off in which poets vie for the winning spot and listeners can vote for their favourite wordsmith on-line or by phone.
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award, given for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year,in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975.
Fence magazine offers two contests: The 2003 Alberta Prize, for a first or second full-length collection of poems by an American woman, and the Modern Poets Series 2003, for a full-length collection by a poet writing in English at any stage in his or her career.
www.poets.ca /linktext/links/links7.htm   (723 words)

  
 Poets&Writers, Inc.
One of the "old-timers" founded in January 1994, this e-zine is strong in fiction and accepts short poems that tend toward the conversational and humorous.
This comprehensive e-zine list provides all known World Wide web and e-mail addresses and abstracts for over 1000 e-zines (as of May 1996) on a wide range of subjects, including a majority of literary ones.
Poets and Writers™ is a registered trademark of Poets and Writers, Inc.
www.pw.org /mag/ezines.htm   (2465 words)

  
 Learn more about Lists of authors in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Learn more about Lists of authors in the online encyclopedia.
The following are lists of authors and writers:
List of Japanese authors: A B C D E F G H I K M N O S T U W Y
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/lists_of_authors.html   (198 words)

  
 Trouble with Normal
For a number of the 1960s poets on the west coast, their points of origin came twofold, from the publication in 1960 of Donald Allan’s The New American Poetry anthology and from the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963.
Through all of this, Canadian poetry, and writing in general, is becoming increasingly regional.
Canadian poetry has become far too big to get a handle on, with huge amounts of writing that have nothing to do with each other, all working from their own individual traditions, which, as they continue, extend further and further apart.
www.poetics.ca /poetics05/05mclennan.html   (2354 words)

  
 Poetry
With metaphorical writing, poets are able to eliminate an overused description like, 'My summer was fun." Instead, they can say 'my summer was a barometer,' or 'my summer was a glance at the moon.' Metaphors create images and comment on how people live their lives.
In the poem on the right, the poet writes about the stones as though they are people having thoughts, giving answers, and wearing clothes.
poem from one of the British poets listed, one poem from the Canadian poets listed, and one
www.rocklin.ca /languagepoetry.htm   (3112 words)

  
 EN. 8 POETS & POETRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You will be researching a Canadian poet and then giving a brief oral presentation to the class.
Look up the poet's last name in the Author / Title drawers, write down the exact call number for the materials you need, and then locate these items on the shelves.
LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS - This list of the League members provides a mini biography and a photo of the poets who are current members.
kitsilano.vsb.bc.ca /Library/EN8poets.html   (378 words)

  
 Poets and Poetry
The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English and French-language Canadian poets.
Poetry lessons by Peter E. Murphy a high school teacher: "Memory is a kind of accomplishment", "Locked in with loss", and "Drop a poem into your class".
Included on this site is a 31 page PDF teacher's guide which introduces a number of poets and their poems with questions and activities included.
www.edselect.com /poetsand.htm   (345 words)

  
 Book Lovers Links - Burlington Public Library
A comprehensive list of Canadian poets complete with biographies, bibliographies, awards and interviews.
Lists of romances set in Canada, monthly featured author interviews, dates and locations for author appearances.
Canadian and Nebula award winning SF writer Robert J. Sawyer, has an outstanding website for SF fans.
www.bpl.on.ca /halinet/booklovers.htm   (1352 words)

  
 CanLinks - CanLiterary
The Canadian Poetry Archive database is searchable by poet, title, keywords and date.
The majority of these articles are separately listed in the CanLit Criticism section of CanLinks.
An impressive anthology designed for the Canadian Literature in English course at the University of Western Ontario, comprising a substantial selection of literary works of various kinds supplemented by a rich portfolio of contemporary illustrations.
www.lucking.net /canlinks/cl_canliterary.htm   (584 words)

  
 List of poets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frances E. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_poets.html   (890 words)

  
 the League of Canadian Poets
Please note that this calendar lists only readings which are sponsored by the League, as well as readings which are submitted to the League specifically to be posted.
For more listings of readings across Canada, see the Canada Council's Readings and Literary Festivals site, or the League's links to reading series.
MOST VOCAL Poets Society is happy to host Rocco Di Giacomo from Thornhill, Ontario, author of EVERYTHING'S IS STILL BURNING, 20 travel poems appearing at Red Room Lounge.
www.poets.ca /linktext/psh.htm   (288 words)

  
 Canadian Poetry Web Links - Literary Databases
For each writer, a list of works, awards, secondary criticism of their works, and annotated links to online resources are provided.
The database is particularly extensive in its documentation of English Canadian literature (with accounts of travel and discovery), women's history, native studies, the history of French Canada, and 19th Century French Canadian literature.
A PDF bibliographical guide based on an examination of major Canadian poetry anthologies, this guide is meant to be a bibliographical aid to those interested in studying "...the historical evolution of ecological thinking in Canada on the basis of poetry."
www.canadianpoetry.ca /links_new_literary_databases.htm   (428 words)

  
 The Picturesque and the Sublime: a Poetics of the Canadian Landscape by Stan Dragland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Picturesque and the Sublime: a Poetics of the Canadian Landscape by Stan Dragland
She shows that Frye's `garrison mentality' and the terror he saw Canadian nature inspiring in Canadian poets depend on selective reading driven by a predisposition towards belief in human alienation from nature.
McKay is one of the Canadian poets Glickman lists as those in whose work `this imaginative sequence is enacted over and over again.' The others are Don Coles, Don Domanski, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Kim Maltman, Erin Mouré;, Al Purdy, Anne Szumigalski, Phyllis Webb, and Jan Zwicky.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/sublime83.html   (553 words)

  
 [Lucipo] good times in nc and scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
and there were readings by poets that were also very different from one another in interesting and thought-provoking ways.
fyi: http://commutiny.net/her/ without knowing the canadian poetry scene, you may not find it interesting, but on the other hand it makes for a great way to compile your list of canadian poets to read.
jill tells me that there is a thriving community of "experimental" poets in toronto and, to a lesser extent, calgary, which i believe you can get a taste of via that website.
lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/lucipo/2004-July/000528.html   (689 words)

  
 Canadian Poetry Web Links - Confederation Poets
This page traces the Carman family genealogy, and provides a comprehensive biography of Bliss Carman, listings of his awards and memberships, and transcriptions of relevant newspaper clippings.
A short biography, list of publications, and compilation of critical materials on Charles G.D. Roberts.
Biographical information, a listing of selected works, and the full text of Scott's Labor and the Angel are notable features of the National Library's web site.
www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/links_new_confederation_poets.htm   (346 words)

  
 Contemporary Poetry Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Academy of American Poets: This website contains a list of national exhibits, information on hundreds of poets, a calendar of events, and updates concerning various awards and programs.
Poets' House: A 35,000 volume reference poetry library open to the public.
League of Canadian Poets: Canada's national organization for poets.
www.cprw.com /litsoc.htm   (222 words)

  
 The Poetry Kit - Poetry Events Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of readings, updated every second month, plus information on Canadian poetry.
This reading series is organized in conjunction with courses taught by Glenn Deer (UBC) and Roy Miki (SFU) on the spaces of race in contemporary Canadian poetry.
This workshop based course is designed for the novice poet who wishes to learn about getting published.
www.poetrykit.org /canada/canevents.htm   (706 words)

  
 LPG — Wolsak & Wynn Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since its founding in 1983, its objective has been to promote the work of excellent, contemporary Canadian poets.
Its list includes both emerging and active mid-career authors, and represents perspectives from every region of the country.
The company is small, but its belief in the genre, and its enthusiasm for widening the audience for poetry are boundless.
www.lpg.ca /wolsak.html   (109 words)

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