Jordan Abel
Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer currently completing his PhD at Simon Fraser University, where he focuses on digital humanities and indigenous poetics. Abel’s conceptual …
Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, U.C. Berkeley, and at Harvard, and taught at Dominican College …
Adonis
Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is a Syrian poet and essayist who led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of …
Manolis Aligizakis
Emmanuel Aligizakis (Manolis) is a Cretan poet and author. He has published more than 20 books of poetry, three novels, and eleven major translation works. His …
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is a writer with an international reputation. He was born in Germany and emigrated with his parents to Palestine in 1936. Best known …
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, England to an English mother and a Jamaican father. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, …
Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico. He has written fifty-one books of poetry and prose and has won many important literary prizes. Formerly Mexico’s ambassador …
John Ashbery
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York in 1927. Best known as a poet, he is the author of over 20 books of poetry …
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison was born in 1918 in Galt, Ontario, raised in Regina, Calgary and Toronto, where she completed high school in 1936. She continued her studies …
Ken Babstock
Ken Babstock was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Airstream Land Yacht which …
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, and a 2016 Rhodes Scholar who holds …
Joshua Bennett
Poet, performer, and scholar Joshua Bennett is the author of three collections of poetry, Owed, The Sobbing School, and The Study of Human Life, which …