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Mercedes Eng is a Canadian writer, poet and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has published multiple poetry books: Mercenary English (2013); yt mama (2020); [1] and Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (2017). [2] [3] Her poetic work considers themes such as race relations and socioeconomics. [4] [ non-primary source needed ] In 2018 she won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. [5]
Eng was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She is of mixed (white and Chinese) lineage, which she explores in her 2020 book my yt mama. [6]
Barrie Phillip Nichol, known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, Creative Writing teacher at York University in Toronto and grOnk/Ganglia Press publisher. His body of work encompasses poetry, children's books, television scripts, novels, short fiction, computer texts, and sound poetry. His love of language and writing, evident in his many accomplishments, continues to be carried forward by many.
George Harry Bowering, is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
Roy Akira Miki, is a Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist most known for his social and literary work.
Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.
Pierre Coupey is a Canadian painter, poet, and editor.
Larry D. Thomas is an American poet. He was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, and in 2009 was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, Exploding Into Night was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
Katie Farris is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor.
The Capilano Review (TCR) is a Canadian tri-annual literary magazine located and published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). A member of the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, Magazine Association of BC, and the Alliance for Arts and Culture, it publishes avant-garde experimental poetry, visual art, interviews, and essays. The magazine features works by emerging and established Canadian and international writers and artists.
Adeena Karasick is a Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist. Born in Winnipeg of Russian Jewish heritage, she is the distinguished author of 13 books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as a series of parodic videopoems, such as the ironic "I Got a Crush on Osama" that was featured on Fox News and screened at film festivals, Ceci n'est pas un Téléphone or Hooked on Telephonics: A Pata-philophonemic Investigation of the Telephone created for The Media Ecology Association, "Lingual Ladies" a post-modern parody of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies", and "This is Your Final Nitrous" a poetic response to the Burning Man Festival., and White Abbot, a parodic videopoem Karasick created during the writing of Salome: Woman of Valor, dedicated to the impossible anguish of forbidden love.
Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American writer.
Maureen Seaton is an American LGBTQ poet, activist, and professor emeritus of English/Creative Writing at the University of Miami. She is the author of fourteen solo books of poetry, thirteen co-authored books of poetry, and her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls. Throughout her writing career, Seaton has often collaborated with fellow poets Denise Duhamel, Neil de la Flor, Kristine Snodgrass, Samuel Ace, Aaron Smith, Nicole Tallman, Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, and Holly Iglesias.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Major poetry-related events that took place worldwide during 2018 are outlined below, in various different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets, etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation.
Rob McLennan is a Canadian writer, critic, and publisher.
Robert Hogg was a Canadian poet, critic, professor, and organic farmer.
Cecily Nicholson is a Canadian poet, arts administrator, independent curator, and activist. Originally from Ontario, she is now based in British Columbia. As a writer and a poet, Nicholson has published collections of poetry, contributed to collected literary works, presented public lectures and readings, and collaborated with numerous community organizations. As an arts administrator, she has worked at the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey, British Columbia, and the artist-run centre Gallery Gachet in Vancouver.
Rosamond S. King is an American poet and literary theorist. She is a literature professor at Brooklyn College, where her courses focus on Caribbean and African literature, sexuality, and performance. In 2017, she won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection, Rock | Salt | Stone.
Bardia Sinaee is an Iranian Canadian poet and editor, whose debut collection Intruder was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for English Poetry in 2022.