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    A feather is seen on a giant dreamcatcher during the "Every Child Matters" march to mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal, Canada on September 30, 2021. - The mobilization is part of the "Every Child Matters" movement to commemorate the victims of Residential Schools, the last of which closed in 1996 in Canada. Earlier this week, Catholic bishops apologized for the trauma, past and ongoing, and actions done towards indigenous people in Residential Schools. (Photo by Andrej Ivanov / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    The year ahead, according to poet laureates from across Canada

    Poet laureates from across the country wrote about the upcoming year for Maclean’s. Here’s what they had to say about 2022.

    American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP/CP)

    Amanda Gorman’s poem: ‘The Hill We Climb’

    Amanda Gorman—at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history—delivered her poem at the U.S. Capitol

    Jordan Abel (Sweetmoon Photography)

    Poet Jordan Abel pieces together his past in his latest book ‘Nishga’

    Abel mines his family’s painful story, exploring the impacts of residential schools and intergenerational trauma, in a new literary work of poetry, art and archival documents

    The bad poetry of Donald Trump, Vol. 6

    Who knew Donald Trump was a poet? Scott Feschuk, that’s who. We present our latest curated collection of presidential poetry.

    Exploring the life of Rumi, America’s most-read poet

    Human warmth and starry spiritual breadth resonate in the work of the Sunni Muslim mystic

    Anne Carson has a nervy new collection of poetry

    Canada’s most richly rewarded poet proves her worth

    Why poets love Gord Downie and vice versa

    For poet Damian Rogers no one combines the intimacy of poetry and arena rock’n’roll like Downie

    Why poetry disappoints us all

    Ben Lerner explores The Hatred of Poetry with the best, and worst, the genre has to offer

    The restoration of poetry’s place

    Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.

    The Xenotext: Creating the poetry bug

    After 11 years and $120,000 in research, Christian Bök has put words to DNA

    Burton Cummings, poet and player

    The singer’s mother thought his soon-to-be-published book of poems, one of the best things he’s ever done

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    Wislawa Szymborska: We leave without the chance to practice

    The great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died today in Krakow. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. The Gazeta Wyborcza website is, at this hour, draped in black, with tributes from Poland’s president, prime minister, foreign minister. Woody Allen is quoted — he apparently viewed a paper bouquet from Szymborska as a greater honour than the awards he makes a show of ignoring. The Gazeta’s headline is taken from this poem: