Everyone is welcome to these monthly sessi ons to share their writing or just to listen. Poets and prose writers rang e from nationally recognized to first-time writers.
\nScheduled Spea kers: A. F. Moritz
\nI am delighted to be hosting Toronto's Poet Lau reate\, A. F. Moritz: A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of p oetry\, 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 Ac ademy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowshi p. He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General&rsquo\;s Award for English-language poetry (Rest on the Flight into Egypt\, The Sentinel\, an d The New Measures). He was the winner of the ReLit Award for poetry in 20 05 for Night Street Repairs. And his collection\, The Sentinel\, a Globe a nd Mail Top 100 of the Year\, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.
\nM oritz has also translated the work of Spanish-language poets Ludwig Zeller and Gilberto Meza\, most often in collaboration with his wife\, Theresa M oritz. The two have also collaborated on several works of non-fiction\, in cluding biographies of Stephen Leacock and Emma Goldman.
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Skills Learned: Communication\, Creativity\, Critical thinking
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