Poet laureates from across the country wrote about the upcoming year for Maclean’s. Here’s what they had to say about 2022.
Amanda Gorman—at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history—delivered her poem at the U.S. Capitol
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
Who knew Donald Trump was a poet? Scott Feschuk, that’s who. We present our latest curated collection of presidential poetry.
Human warmth and starry spiritual breadth resonate in the work of the Sunni Muslim mystic
Canada’s most richly rewarded poet proves her worth
For poet Damian Rogers no one combines the intimacy of poetry and arena rock’n’roll like Downie
Ben Lerner explores The Hatred of Poetry with the best, and worst, the genre has to offer
Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.
After 11 years and $120,000 in research, Christian Bök has put words to DNA
The singer’s mother thought his soon-to-be-published book of poems, one of the best things he’s ever done
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: