Donna Allard is a Canadian

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and

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. From 2000 to 2011, she served as Atlantic representative, national coordinator and president of the

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and was on its board of directors. She was president of the executive board of the Canadian Poetry Association from 2005-2011, and is a founder of the Sojourner Literary Festival and co-founder of the Canadian Poets Guild (2016). She was also a founder of the National Milton Acorn Festival, where she served for eight years. She was named National Beat Poet Laureate in 2020. She lives in

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Early life

Allard is from the fishing village of

. Her first published poem was "Friends", which she wrote in 1972 for the FHS Yearbook. Her first poetry performance was in 1988 at the National Milton Acorn Festival. She has performed with poets including bill bissett,

John B. Lee John Busteed Lee (born 1951) is a Canadian author and poet who is Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario. He has received more than 60 prestigious international awards for poetry. Biography Early life Born in Highgate, Ontario, Lee was rais ...

Robert Priest Robert Priest (born July 10, 1951, in Walton-on-Thames, England) is a Canadian poet, children's author and singer/songwriter. He has written eighteen books of poetry, four children's novels, four children's albums, and six CDs of songs and poems. ...

, Nicole Brossard,

Joseph Sherman Joseph Howard Sherman (1945 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia – January 9, 2006 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) was a Jewish Canadians, Canadian poet and visual arts editing, ...

, Fred Stenson and

Rita Joe Rita Joe, (born Rita Bernard; March 15, 1932 – March 20, 2007) was a Mi'kmaq poet and songwriter, often referred to as the Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq people. Biography Rita was born March 15, 1932 in Whycocomagh, Cape Breton Island, N ...

Published works

*1998:''Postal Code I'' () *2001:''No Love Lost II'' () *2001:''Poetea For Six'' () *2002:''Oral Victory'' () *2002:''Time of Trial: Beyond the Terror of 9/11'' () *2003:''Handprints For The Future'' () *2006:''Bellwalker'' () *2006:''Hand Upon the Dunes'' () *2006:''Minago Streets'' () *2012:''From Shore To Shoormal'' () *2019:''Three Times Around the World, Coldfire, Ghost in the Window'' ()

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Author Donna Allard International Beat Poet Laureate Official Website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Allard, Donna 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Living people 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Year of birth missing (living people)

Early life

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