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Poet Laureate Of Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a poet laureate position appointed by the municipal government of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada."Halifax names first Poet Laureate" , May 29, 2001. The position was first created in 2001, and has been held by eight poets as of 2020.Stephen Cooke "Sue Goyette named Halifax’s new poet laureate" '' |
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coast (newspaper)
''The Coast'' is a free alternative weekly newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The paper distributes 24,000 copies per week throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality. The paper is owned by ''Overstory Media Group''. Founded in 1993, ''The Coast'' has a generally left wing editorial policy. It focuses on local issues, especially "people working for change" within the community. ''The Coast'' is available in Bedford, Lower Sackville, Tantallon, and the Stanfield International Airport, but 75 percent of its readership lives in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth. The paper claims a readership of 61,263. According to a January 2007 Corporate Research Associates metro quarterly survey, 55 percent of ''The Coast''s readers are between 18 and 34 years of age (34.701 readers). See also *List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – ''Airdrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIWW
CIWW (1310 kHz, ''CityNews Ottawa'') is a commercial AM radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, owned by Rogers Sports & Media, and branded as ''CityNews Ottawa''. It simulcasts a News/Talk radio format, along with co-owned 101.1 CJET-FM. The radio studios and offices are at Thurston Drive and Conroy Road in Ottawa. The station broadcasts at 50,000 watts, the maximum for Canadian AM stations. The transmitter site is on McKenna Casey Drive, near Strandherd Drive and Ontario Highway 416 in Nepean. To protect other stations on 1310 AM, it uses a directional antenna. By day it employs a two-tower array and at night a five-tower array. The nighttime signal is beamed mainly into Canada. Programming On weekdays, local all-news blocks are heard in morning and afternoon drive time. In middays, two local talk shows air: Rob Snow in late mornings and Sam Laprade in early afternoons. Their shows are repeated in the evening. Overnights feature the national all-news service shared with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Cooper
Afua Cooper (born 8 November 1957) is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian. In 2018 she is an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University. She is an author and dub poet. As of 2018 she has published five volumes of poetry."Best-selling author Afua Cooper appointed Halifax's new poet laureate" ''National Post'', 23 April 2018 Early life and education Born in , Cooper grew up in |
Rebecca Thomas (poet)
Rebecca Ann Thomas (born December 10, 1984) is an American filmmaker and television director, best known for writing and directing the film ''Electrick Children'' and episodic television, including ''Stranger Things'', ''Limetown'', and ''When the Streetlights Go On.'' Personal life Thomas was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas; she served a mission for 18 months in Japan.Durga Chew-BoseRebecca Thomas' Electrick Youth Interview magazine She is married to Mark Garbett (of The Moth & The Flame). Directing career Thomas' short film called "Nobody Knows You, Nobody Gives a Damn" premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Her debut feature, ''Electrick Children'', debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival on 10 February 2012.Michael TullyElectrick Children — A Hammer To Nail Review ''Filmmaker'', March 7, 2013 It also played in the U.S. at the South by Southwest Film Festival on 15 March 2012. Thomas directed episode sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Jones
El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Biography She was born in Wales and grew up in Winnipeg. Her book, ''Live From the Afrikan Resistance!'' published in 2014 by Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, is a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. In 2015, she was a resident at the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization; she wrote in ''The Washington Post''in June 2020 about "the realities of white-supremacist oppression that black people in Canada have long experienced." Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM, an educational program which provides information on Black history and culture aimed at incarcerated people. Listeners from prisons call in to rap and read poetry that they have written, provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Telegraph-Journal
The ''Telegraph-Journal'' is a daily newspaper published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It serves as both a provincial daily and as a local newspaper for Saint John. The newspaper is published by Brunswick News. The ''Telegraph-Journal'' is the only New Brunswick-based newspaper to be distributed province-wide and has the highest readership in the province at a weekly circulation of 233,549 and a daily readership of about 100,000. Brunswick News also publishes a series of editions of regional news, including editions in Fredericton and Moncton under the titles ''Daily Gleaner'' and ''Times & Transcript'', respectively. Corporate management is based in Saint John. History The paper has been published out of Saint John since 1862. Capitalist Kenneth Colin (K.C.) Irving, without formal announcement bought New Brunswick Publishing and the ''Telegraph-Journal'', as well as a local Saint John radio station CHSJ in 1944. Eventually word got out that Irving had bought the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her style is marked primarily by spoken word poetry set to music. Background Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, she moved to Ottawa for a time after high school to attend university, and then hitchhiked to British Columbia, where she worked in community development"Tanya Davis' ''Gorgeous'' talk" '' The Coast'', June 19, 2008. before moving to Halifax in 2005."The Evolution of Tanya Davis" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant is a Canadian author, poet, playwright, and professor. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the third poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is known for writing ''Africville'', a children's picture book about a black community by the same name that was razed by the city of Halifax in the 1960s. "Africville" was nominated for a 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award. The book also won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was among 13 picture books listed on the United States Board on Books for Young People's 2019 USBBY Outstanding International Books List. Early life and education Grant was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a degree in music from Dalhousie University and a degree in journalism from the University of King's College. Career Grant began publishing her work after she was approached by Sandra McIntyre, a senior editor at Nimbus Publishing, during an event where she read a poem from her teenage years. The poem, called "Reme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax Regional Municipality
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The regional municipality consists of four former municipalities that were Amalgamation (politics), amalgamated in 1996: History of Halifax (former city), Halifax, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Bedford, and Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Halifax County. Halifax is a major economic centre in Atlantic Canada, with a large concentration of government services and private sector companies. Major employers and economic generators include the Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), Saint Mary's University, the Halifax Shipyard, various levels of government, and the Port of Halifax. Agricult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Books
CBC Arts (french: Radio-Canada Arts) is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', ''Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', '' Exhibitionists'', '' The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show ('' The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries (''Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is a Canadians, Canadian poet, ethnographer, and essayist. Born and raised on the Prairies, she moved to Nova Scotia in 1983. Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books of creative nonfiction, poetry, literacy, ethnography, and essays (scholarly and literary). Her award-winning writing focuses on women, arts-based research, and memoir/life stories; her work is known for its hybrid and lyrical approaches. She has published book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers. Biography Her first book of poetry, ''All the Perfect Disguises,'' winner of the Poet's Corner Award, was published in 2003. In 2007, a chapbook, ''Saved String'' (Rubicon Press) and the collection ''Combustion'' (Brick Books) were published. Neilsen Glenn published 'Lost Gospels' (Brick Books) in 2010. A collection of essays on poetry and loss, ''Threading Light'', was published in 2011 by Hagios Press. The best-selling anthology of poetry and prose about mothers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
