Articles Tagged with 'Two Maps of Emery'

By Sean Delaney Lawrence Hutchman, Emery’s renowned Poet Laureate, recently made a significant donation to the Woodview Public Library. The poet laureate of Emery Village is a man whose history is intertwined with the village he calls home, and it is that history and his own that inspires the na...

By Sean Delaney “Sometimes people feel poetry is outmoded, but it’s not,” said Laurence Hutchman, poet laureate for Emery Village. “Poems are tremendous condensations of life, reflections of life. You can get things in poetry we can’t get anyplace else, and in a different and powerful way.” Sure...

By Sean Delaney On June 6, Laurence Hutchman conducted a poetry reading session at the Carmine Stefano Community Centre. About 40 people attended for the 7 p.m. start time. Hutchman has now written two books of poetry about Emery. The most recent, Two Maps of Emery, is presently printing a s...

This month, Dr. Laurence Hutchman was designated with the title as Poet Laureate of Emery. Hutchman was a student at Gulfstream Public School and Emery Collegiate Institute in the 1960’s. He went on to become a professor who taught English Literature at several Canadian universities. He recei...