Articles Tagged with 'League of Canadian Poets'

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...

Playing Hockey on Crang’s Pond We dreamed of playing at the Maple Leaf Gardens, waited for Hockey Night in Canada following The Plouffe Family and Don Messer’s Jubilee, waited for the Ford to drive into the gas station to the chorus of the Esso anthem: What a great, great feeling, ...