a good song for the last night of national poetry month. happy poetrying people!!!

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i hope my french is correct. i’m a little rusty…

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ok one last favourite: this poet is care of Hilary Friesen, our fair president with a flare for chairing a meeting! Hilary mentioned quite a few poets among her faves, the exceptional Vs. by Kerry Ryan (i had the pleasure of interviewing her last year – check it out – here!!) and the marvelous this is a small northern town by Rosanna Deerchild! (click on their names for more info on …

the french is taking over! just like the poetry is!!!

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so when asked who her favourite poet was, our wonderful, new, and wonderfully new, programming coordinator Karen Emilson mentioned a little known fella named Tennyson!!

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson was from merry ol’ England (but of course) and was a popular Victorian age poet. for a complete biography and listing of his work, check out online-literature.com’s spread – here!!!

my favourite Tennyson is the Idylls of the King – a collection of …

and charlie said, (sorry i don’t know charlie’s last name – she is a board member prospect and we sure hope she joins us :)) but charlie said her favourite poet was T.S. ELIOT!

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now, i have big big love for Thomas Stearns – he was my first favourite poet.

he was also a very important literary critic, thought he really didn’t like the romantics, especially Shelley. but, i think, since he wrote The Hollow Men, we will forgive him that.

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yes i do like to speak FRENglish, why do you ask??

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so continuing our tour of BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ FAVOURITE POETS, we come to the dear poet herself, Ms. LINDSEY CHILDS who told me that her favourite poet is a toss up between ARIEL GORDON and GWENDOLYN MACEWEN. both stellar choices i have to say…

ARIEL GORDON just won the Lansdowne Poetry Prize at the 2011 Manitoba Book Awards for her collection, HUMP. a great book if you have a chance to pick it …

hey! here’s another way to celebrate poetry – write some poetry!!!!

Poetry Workshop with Steven Ross Smith

we are behind in the times! all the cool literary blogs are celebrating poetry month so we should too!

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the toronto quarterly has tons of neato interviews and profiles of the latest and greatest  - check it out – here!

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and, of course, the league of canadian poets is celebrating, who knew! lots of greatness to be found – here!

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so, to join in the fun, i asked our fabuloso board members who their favourite poets are! secretary extraordinaire TARA …