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May 1, 2016August 4, 2016

Updated news for poetry and the National Youth Arts Week

Check “Where Does Poetry Take You?” On Saskatoon Public Library
Thanks dee Hobsbawn-Smith, 2015-16 Writer in Residence, Saskatoon Public Library to select mine as well.
My translation and Kateri Lanthier’s poem “Guanyin Lamp” on PoetrySky 43nd issue
May, 2016: two new poems in Chinese in he Epoch Poetry Quarterly (Taiwan) #187
Diana Manole’s interview and my poem in Canadian Immigrant Magazine May issue, 2016

For National Youth Arts Week, I was glad to have Poetry Alive presentations as following:

May 2, 2016: Poetry Alive for Rebel Week at Central Library
May 3/4, 2016 Poets in Schools at Dewey College
May 5, 2016 Poets in Schools at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Secondary School

April 23, 2016July 16, 2017

In celebration of William Shakespeare

April is poetry month, and today is a very special day for Shakespeare. On CBC Radio Fresh Air we will talk and discuss about this great playwright and poet’s works! Glad to be with poets laureate: John B. Lee, George Elliott Clarke and host Mary Ito.

Click here to listen to the interview and read my poem: Haiku In Shakespeare on Fresh Air.

April 22, 2016May 30, 2016

Spring Forward: An Evening of Poetry on April 28

With POETS:

– Robert Priest, Poet, Novelist, Singer/Songwriter, Young Adult Author, Playwright & Journalist

– Dwayne Morgan, Poet, Speaker, Social Entrepreneur

– George Elliott Clarke, Poet, Playwright, and currently the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate

– Anne Michaels, Poet and Novelist, and currently Toronto’s Poet Laureate

– Anna Yin, Mississauga’s inaugural Poet Laureate and Ontario’s representative to the League of Canadian Poets

– Dane Swan, Slam-poet, spoken word performer, and writer

Thanks Patrick Connors and Scarborough Arts Executive Director Sergei Petrov