Toronto poetry goes public

Toronto’s poet laureate Dionne Brand has instigated a new project to bring poetry to the people. The initiative, called Poetry is Public is Poetry, aims to display passages from 34 poets combined with visuals by illustrator Frank Viva in—of course—public spaces.

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Participating poets include big names such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels, Jan Zwicky, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, and Anne Simpson, as well as younger poets such as Jacob McArthur Mooney, Paul Vermeersch, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Angela Hibbs.

The first stage of this project includes five panels that were unveiled last week at the Toronto Reference Library. Two to four annual installations at various libraries throughout the city are planned for the future . . .