City of Vancouver Poet Laureate – Call for Expressions of Interest
(Vancouver, B.C.) – The City of Vancouver would like to hear from poets interested in becoming the City’s third Poet Laureate. The call for nominations and submissions is open until August 24.
“Since 2007, the City of Vancouver has selected a gifted writer to represent the cultural richness of our community and we have been [...]
Vancouver 125 Legacy Books Collection Announced
I’m pleased to announce that as part of the Vancouver 125 celebrations, and in partnership with the Association of Book Publishers of BC, we will be working with publishers to bring ten important Vancouver books back into print. It’s an inspired list of books. Keep an eye out for them at your local bookstore. The [...]
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gray Whale, After Wallace Stevens and ending with a line from Rilke
Written for the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative to become the Greenest City in the World by 2020 and in recognition of the gray whale that swam into Downtown Vancouver on May 5th 2010
1
An armoured lung,
a living castle of barnacle
and bone; a peaceful
leviathan moving with
the ease of a dark cloud.
2
The child knows more
about [...]
