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Joel Yanofsky: Open Letter
An Open Letter to Joel Yanofsky concerning the inaccuracies and omissions in his recent article "Enfin Visibles! Quebec's Literary Community" in Minority Report: An Alternative History of English-Language Arts in Quebec published by Guernica Press (2011).
Nov 10, 2011, 13:58
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Jack Locke: Anglophobia strikes Montreal's Arts Council
Claude Beausoleil is Montreal's new poet of the city (Počte de la Cité). But the organization that has gone miles to create the poet's position refuses to publicize its noble initiative in English.
Jun 21, 2011, 11:40
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Another Cut
Let us start with an assumption. Having artists in the schools is a good thing. It is good because it dispels the notion that all artists are dead. It reinforces the notion that artists are living, breathing human beings, perhaps a bit different, but nonetheless living, breathing human beings.
Dec 5, 2010, 07:26
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English Language Poets Not Wanted
This is the unedited letter to The Montreal Gazette which was published Saturday, November 13, 2010.
Nov 13, 2010, 15:59
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J.J. Locke: Should Quebec appoint a Commissioner of the English Language?
Should we English writers, speakers, poets, as a collective of diverse voices demand equality in this land that was built by peoples of many languages and cultures?
Jul 21, 2010, 21:00
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Monk E: Up Against The Wall
Monk-E is a multi-talented revolutionary mind who expresses his deepest thoughts through his paintings, poetry and moral actions. International ambassador of love and sovereign artist of the EyesWideOpenArtisticPeaceMovement, his visionary art serves as a channel through which peaceful change will manifest itself on earth.
Jul 21, 2010, 20:59
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Endre Farkas: Oh No Canada
How can any poet support this? It’s so unrhythmic and “bureaucratese.” And, of course, it is as sexist as the very one it is replacing. And it is even more insidious because it’s subliminally sexist. Can’t the FPP see that the word “persons” contains the word “sons”?
Jul 21, 2010, 20:58
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Jack Locke: O Canada – A sad day in Poetville
The word "persons," contrary to what Papier Q insists, is not "subliminally sexist." When the Supreme Court of Canada in 1928 ruled that women were not persons fit to be appointed to the Canadian Senate, that was not subliminally sexist, it was demonstrably sexist.
Jul 21, 2010, 20:57
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Carolyn Marie Souaid: Advice to the Young. Line Up Your Ducks – Early!
In Canada and perhaps elsewhere, there is a dirty war being waged by certain poets and schools of poetry for control of the direction of the art, the aesthetic dominance. They tend to be “exclusivists” who want to be in charge of who is in or out of anthologies, on or off the festival circuit, and who is shortlisted or short-shrifted for the major awards.
Jul 21, 2010, 20:56
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Carolyn Marie Souaid: Pay the Poets
The sad truth of the matter is that poets are underpaid and undervalued in our society, despite voices that resurface from time to time echoing Shelley’s declaration that they are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Jul 21, 2010, 20:55
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