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Mexican novelist and poet Carmen Boullosa has been internationally acclaimed. Her works have received praise not only from reviewers but also from leading Latin American writers of our time, including Alma Guillermoprieto and Carlos Fuentes.
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Toronto -
If you think poetry is for the birds, think again. Toronto has a vibrant poetry scene that is brimming with astounding talent.
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Toronto -
If you think poetry is for the birds, think again. Toronto has a vibrant poetry scene that is brimming with astounding talent.
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Toronto -
The Czech dissident poet and author Josef Škvorecký has died in Canada aged 87. Škvorecký had resided in Canada since fleeing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Miami -
Spoken word poet Willie Lee Bell Jr was gunned down just after closing his Literary Café and Poetry Lounge in Miami early on Sunday morning.
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Markham -
As Black History month celebrations wrapped up at the beginning of March in Markham, Ontario, spoken word poet Dwayne Morgan was brought in as the keynote speaker for the celebration.
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A poem by former poet laureate Ted Hughes, entitled "Last Letter", has been found. It was written about the night he heard the news of the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath.
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Atlanta -
A poet in Atlanta has been going out at night to spread his art around the city but some people are not happy about it. What he calls “roadside haiku” a local group calls “litter on a stick.”
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Toronto -
Truth Is... is one of Toronto's busiest spoken word poets. She was at the James Canning Stage on Saturday to give Pride Week her own special touch with stories in the form of poetry, along with Beth Anne Fischer.
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Award-winning Ottawa poet John Andrew Akpata has a message. The government is stealing from the poor and giving it to the rich. He has used his poetry in the political realm.
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Poet Headlines
The poet trying to build his country's first book shop
The Syrian poet, Adonis, spoke to Anwar Hamed of BBC Arabic at The Mosaic Rooms in London.
Award-winning poet and essayist Adrienne Rich has died aged 82, a family member confirms.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to write her own versions of age-old fairytales for a new stage show this Christmas.
 Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88.
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David Silverberg in Victoria during the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word
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OUTEXPRESSION online newspaper is a publication of the Toronto Queer West Arts Centre. Copyright 2012. All Rights...
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OUTEXPRESSION online newspaper is a publication of the Toronto Queer West Arts Centre. Copyright 2012. All Rights...
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On a long bus ride, this reporter took along a book to read. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," by James Joyce....
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