A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Sparrow (2018) and As Far As You Know (2020). In 2019, Moritz was named the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto,  a position he will hold for four years. He also serves as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry (Rest on the Flight into Egypt, The Sentinel, and The New Measures). He was the winner of the ReLit Award for poetry in 2005 for Night Street Repairs. And his collection, The Sentinel, a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Kate Marshall Flaherty is a poet, teacher, editor and performer. She has five books of poetry, including "Reaching V," Guernica Editions and “Radiant,” Inanna Publications. She has been published in numerous Canadian and International Journals and Anthologies, CV2, Grain, Room, Saranac Review, Trinity Review and others.



She was shortlisted for the 2021 Mitchel Prize foe Poetry, Arc's Poem of the Year 2019 and Exile's Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize 2018, Descant’s Best Canadian Poem, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize, the Robert Frost Poetry Award and others.

You can also connect with Kate on Twitter.

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Jessica Lee McMillan is a poet with an MA in English. When not writing or teaching, she spends time with her little family and buries herself in books and records.

Jessica's work explores perception, existential concerns, pop culture, music, social justice, nature, water, physics, scale, the word & body, and mental & physical peripheries.

You can find her work presently/forthcoming in Pocket Lint, Tiny Spoon, Blank Spaces Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Riddled with Arrows, Antilang, Dream Pop Journal, Gap Riot Press, SORTES, Train Poetry Journal, Lover's Eye Press, Red Alder Review and others.

​Jessica is a white settler and first-generation Canadian who lives in New Westminster, British Columbia on stolen and unsurrendered lands of the Coast Salish and Halkomelem-speaking Peoples, in particular, the QayQayt and Kwikwetlem First Nations.

You can also connect with Jessica on Twitter. 

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Francine Fallara is a passionate, genuine and creative simple girl striving daily to keep my inner rebel warrior alive. Music lover. Exploration Geologist. Society tries to impose so many rules on us and our life patterns, but who says this is the way to live. If people would seriously listen more to their inner voices, they would be happier, more optimistic, avoid depression and be grateful for their life achievements.

We are the master of our own lives. We need to understand we can change anything we don’t like in our lives. We can all stop living to satisfy others’ judgments and start living based on our personal convictions. Expressing her own journey within her first book « Inkling Whispers »: A collection of poems inspired by her numerous photo-walk escapades comforting my explorer's soul.

This poem is in Francine's second book : Uncovering the Shadows which was published the end of April 2022 by Bookleaf Publishing.

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Allie Picketts (she/her) is a musician, parent, writer, teacher and lover of nature. She is thankful to live within the traditional territory of the T'Sou-ke Nation. Allie acknowledges that as a descendent of European settlers, she lives, moves, and creates on the traditional lands of Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples including T’Sou-ke, Pacheedaht, lək̓ʷəŋən, Scia’new, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. May we each continually reflect on the history of the land we live on and consider what we can do daily, in our particular individual lives, to support truth, reconciliation, the land back movement, and Indigenous sovereignty.

You can find Allie on Instagram as well. 

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Harry Posner is a self-published and published poet, author, and editor, whose love of writing evolved in a natural progression from short stories to children’s picture books, to poetry, novels, and spoken word performance. He is currently a member of the Words Aloud Poetry Collective, as well as the Headwaters Writers Guild, Writers Ink Alton, an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and a member of the Writers Union of Canada. As well as teaching creative writing in the area of Woodville, Nova Scotia, he has authored three novels, a book of poetry, and a workbook for developing writers. Harry released a collection of flash fiction entitled LITTLE EXITS early in 2015 and also released his first audio poetry CD in November of 2015. He released his novel AUROCH UNBOUND in 2017, and... he was named first Poet Laureate of Dufferin County in June 2017! In 2019 his first novella PEGGY LEE'S DELICIOUS LIPS won the Ken Klonsky novella award, and was published by Quattro Books. Harry has just published a book of spoken word poetry, BLUE IS BIGGER THAN BROWN, and is soon to release MALWARE, a novella trilogy consisting of Malware, Dux Dispar, and Here is Betty. Watch for it.

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Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. Her essay “Mondegreen Girls” won The Malahat Review's Open Seasons Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2021. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory.

"How to Get Lost in the Woods" appears in Tanis's latest book, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, published by Wolsak & Wynn in spring 2022.

You can follow Tanis on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, 

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Nan Williamson is a teacher, artist and author living in Peterborough. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, 2013. Her chapbook, leave the door open for the moon, was published by Jackson Creek Press in 2015.

Always interested in the verbal-visual connection, she plays with shapes, colours, and texture to wed form and content in paint and poetry.

More than 80 of her poems have been published in juried literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and the UK.  Her poem, Interlude  was one of six set to music by Alain Keyser  for her album, One Sky, 2017

She is also the illustrator for Delicate Impact, a Canadian anthology of poetry, A Beret Days Book, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2018.

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In her writing Atma Frans searches for the voice beneath her personas: woman, mother, architect, trauma survivor, queer, yogi, poet. Her poetry has been a finalist for contests and is published in The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework (UK), Lighthouse Literary Journal(UK), and elsewhere. She lives in Gibsons BC where she is working on her debut collection “Despite the Dark.” For more info see: www.spacestobe.org

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Danny Peart was born in Port Dalhousie, Ontario. After a few years at Lakeport High School, he disappeared for a while to Kingston, Ontario. He was either at university there or in the penitentiary. He won't specify.

He now lives in Vancouver, married to Janette Lindley and they have two sons, Max and Nick. He has worked as a Globe and Mail paperboy, a Bartender, a farm equipment Parts Manager and a Personal Trainer for the past 27 years. (His clients eagerly await his Confessions of a Personal Trainer.) He has studied writing with Gloria Sawai, Zsuzsi Gartner, Edna Alford, Seán Virgo, Carolyn Smart, Don McKay and Ernest Hemingway. Aislinn Hunter was his exceptional advisor for the poems in Ruined By Love.

Danny is a member of the League of Canadian Poets.

In 2016 he published Stark Naked in a Laundromat - 10 stories and 10 poems about growing up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario (Nicely introduced by his brother Neil Peart).

In December of 2017 he published a new collections of poems, titled Another Mountain to Climb.

"Wandering" is from Danny's new collection “Not Quite So Handsome” that will be added to his website on July 30th.

Please take a moment to check out Danny's YouTube channel as well. 

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