Past lectures not currently in print have been delivered by the following renowned Canadian poets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karen Solie<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nA Paradox of Wonder and Fear:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nKaren Solie Walks Poetry’s Perimeter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
interview by Fran Pacchiano and Tara Wohlleben<\/p>\n\n\n\n
featured in Portal 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Path of the Hare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n2024 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered by Karen Solie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 14, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nKaren Solie<\/span> has published six books from Short Haul Engine<\/em> (2001) to The Caiplie Caves<\/em> (2019). She is a recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Latner Writer\u2019s Trust Poetry Prize. She has also been nominated or shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, Gerald Lampert, and ReLit awards. Solie was the Associate Director of the Banff Writing Studio and now teaches at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has also taught at the University of Manchester and been a writer-in residence at the University of Toronto and a Holloway Visiting Writer at University of California Berkeley. Her work has been translated into eight languages.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nM. NourbeSe Philip<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nUnspelling Silence<\/s>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nM. NourbeSe Philip Speaks Truth to History<\/p>\n\n\n\n
interview<\/a> by Sam Bollinger and Tianna Vertigan<\/p>\n\n\n\nfeatured in Portal 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nWhat Happens to Poetry When<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n2022 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture <\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered by M. NourbeSe Philip <\/p>\n\n\n\n
October 27, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nNourbeSe<\/span> was born in Tobago and moved to Ontario in 1968, where she studied political science and law at Western. She practiced law for seven years before becoming a full-time writer and independent scholar whose 14 published works reinvent the genres of poetry, drama, novel, and essay. Her seminal work Zong!<\/em> dissects a two-page legal text to give voice to 150+ African slaves and was one of World Literature Today<\/em>\u2019s 21 Books for the 21st Century. She is the recipient of a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent awards include the 2020 PEN\/Nabokov Award for International Literature and the 2021 Canada Council for the Arts\u2019 Molson Prize.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nA. F. Moritz<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nBefore Poetry There Was Illiterature:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nA. F. Moritz on the Hidden, Lost, or Scorned Aspects of Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in<\/a>terview<\/a> by Isabella Ranallo and Sophia Wasylinko<\/p>\n\n\n\nfeatured in Portal 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nPoetry: Future Present of the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n2021-2022 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered by A. F. Moritz<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 3, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nA. F. Moritz<\/a><\/span> has written more than twenty books of poetry and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection, The Sentinel<\/a><\/em>, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail<\/em> Top 100 of the Year. His recent work includes The Sparrow<\/a> <\/em>(2018), As Far As You Know<\/a> <\/em>(2020), and Great Silent Ballad<\/em> <\/a>(2024). He lives in Toronto, where he recently served as the city\u2019s sixth Poet Laureate. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nLillian Allen<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nThey’re Going to Jump Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLillian Allen on Poetry’s Power to Touch What’s Hidden<\/p>\n\n\n\n
interview<\/a> by Kaleigh Studer and Lauryn Mackenzie<\/p>\n\n\n\nfeatured in Portal 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nPoetry as Social Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nDub Poetry and Spoken Word on the Frontlines<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered<\/a> by Lillian Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\nFebruary 11, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nLillian Allen<\/a><\/span> is an educator, activist, and leading international exponent of dub poetry. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and studied in New York and Toronto after moving away from the Caribbean as a teenager. In 2003, she helped found the Dub Poets Collective and in 2004 hosted Wordbeat, a CBC radio program on poetry and spoken word. She is a Creative Writing professor at OCAD and an internationally recognized authority and activist on cultural diversity and equity. Her work for young people includes Why Me<\/em>, If You See Truth<\/em>, and Nothing But a Hero<\/em>. She was also featured in the film Unnatural Causes<\/em> (1989) and co-produced and co-directed the documentary Blakk Wi Blakk<\/em> (1994). Her honours and awards include a City of Toronto Cultural Champion Award and a William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nGregory Scofield<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nOn Our Own Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nGregory Scofield on Why Indigenous Literature Matters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
interview<\/a> by Kain Stewart and Patrick Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\nfeatured in Portal 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nWhy Indigenous Literatures Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n2019-2020 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered<\/a> by Gregory Scofield<\/p>\n\n\n\nFebruary 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nGregory Scofield<\/span> is of Red River M\u00e9tis ancestry rooted in the historic Kinosota-Reedy Creek, Manitoba. He has taught at Brandon, Emily Carr, the Alberta University of the Arts, and Laurentian, having served as writer-in residence at the universities of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Victoria as well as Memorial University of Newfoundland. Since winning the 1994 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for The Gathering<\/em>, Scofield has published over half a dozen volumes of poetry. <\/em>He has also received the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) and the Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize (2016).<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nLorna Crozier<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\n\u201cBe Full of Dread, But Do It Anyway\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLorna Crozier on Risk-Taking and Embracing the Strange<\/p>\n\n\n\n
interview<\/a> by Erinn Sturgeon<\/p>\n\n\n\nfeatured in Portal 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nWriting and Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n2018 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
delivered<\/a> by Lorna Crozier<\/p>\n\n\n\nFebruary 8, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nLorna Crozier<\/span> is an Officer of the Order of Canada who has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching, and her mentoring. She is also a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and holds five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her work has been translated into several languages, and The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels<\/em> one of its Top 100 Books of the Year. Crozier has performed for Queen Elizabeth II. She was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. After That <\/em>is her most recent collection of poetry. She lives on Vancouver Island and has read her poetry on every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n![\"Poster](\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Crozier-White-Sails-poster.jpg\" "\\"Poster\\"")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\nLorna Crozier<\/span> is an Officer of the Order of Canada who has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching, and her mentoring. She is also a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and holds five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her work has been translated into several languages, and The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels<\/em> one of its Top 100 Books of the Year. Crozier has performed for Queen Elizabeth II. She was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. After That <\/em>is her most recent collection of poetry. She lives on Vancouver Island and has read her poetry on every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\nEr\u00edn Moure<\/div><\/summary>\n\n\nTo Think With Your Mouth:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nTranslating Time and Language with Er\u00edn Moure<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Paradox of Wonder and Fear:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Karen Solie Walks Poetry’s Perimeter<\/p>\n\n\n\n interview by Fran Pacchiano and Tara Wohlleben<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Path of the Hare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered by Karen Solie<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 14, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Karen Solie<\/span> has published six books from Short Haul Engine<\/em> (2001) to The Caiplie Caves<\/em> (2019). She is a recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Latner Writer\u2019s Trust Poetry Prize. She has also been nominated or shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, Gerald Lampert, and ReLit awards. Solie was the Associate Director of the Banff Writing Studio and now teaches at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has also taught at the University of Manchester and been a writer-in residence at the University of Toronto and a Holloway Visiting Writer at University of California Berkeley. Her work has been translated into eight languages.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Unspelling M. NourbeSe Philip Speaks Truth to History<\/p>\n\n\n\n interview<\/a> by Sam Bollinger and Tianna Vertigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n What Happens to Poetry When<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture <\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered by M. NourbeSe Philip <\/p>\n\n\n\n October 27, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n NourbeSe<\/span> was born in Tobago and moved to Ontario in 1968, where she studied political science and law at Western. She practiced law for seven years before becoming a full-time writer and independent scholar whose 14 published works reinvent the genres of poetry, drama, novel, and essay. Her seminal work Zong!<\/em> dissects a two-page legal text to give voice to 150+ African slaves and was one of World Literature Today<\/em>\u2019s 21 Books for the 21st Century. She is the recipient of a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent awards include the 2020 PEN\/Nabokov Award for International Literature and the 2021 Canada Council for the Arts\u2019 Molson Prize.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Before Poetry There Was Illiterature:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A. F. Moritz on the Hidden, Lost, or Scorned Aspects of Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n in<\/a>terview<\/a> by Isabella Ranallo and Sophia Wasylinko<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetry: Future Present of the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2021-2022 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered by A. F. Moritz<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 3, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. F. Moritz<\/a><\/span> has written more than twenty books of poetry and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection, The Sentinel<\/a><\/em>, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail<\/em> Top 100 of the Year. His recent work includes The Sparrow<\/a> <\/em>(2018), As Far As You Know<\/a> <\/em>(2020), and Great Silent Ballad<\/em> <\/a>(2024). He lives in Toronto, where he recently served as the city\u2019s sixth Poet Laureate. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n They’re Going to Jump Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lillian Allen on Poetry’s Power to Touch What’s Hidden<\/p>\n\n\n\n interview<\/a> by Kaleigh Studer and Lauryn Mackenzie<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetry as Social Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dub Poetry and Spoken Word on the Frontlines<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2021 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered<\/a> by Lillian Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n February 11, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lillian Allen<\/a><\/span> is an educator, activist, and leading international exponent of dub poetry. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and studied in New York and Toronto after moving away from the Caribbean as a teenager. In 2003, she helped found the Dub Poets Collective and in 2004 hosted Wordbeat, a CBC radio program on poetry and spoken word. She is a Creative Writing professor at OCAD and an internationally recognized authority and activist on cultural diversity and equity. Her work for young people includes Why Me<\/em>, If You See Truth<\/em>, and Nothing But a Hero<\/em>. She was also featured in the film Unnatural Causes<\/em> (1989) and co-produced and co-directed the documentary Blakk Wi Blakk<\/em> (1994). Her honours and awards include a City of Toronto Cultural Champion Award and a William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n On Our Own Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gregory Scofield on Why Indigenous Literature Matters<\/p>\n\n\n\n interview<\/a> by Kain Stewart and Patrick Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why Indigenous Literatures Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019-2020 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered<\/a> by Gregory Scofield<\/p>\n\n\n\n February 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gregory Scofield<\/span> is of Red River M\u00e9tis ancestry rooted in the historic Kinosota-Reedy Creek, Manitoba. He has taught at Brandon, Emily Carr, the Alberta University of the Arts, and Laurentian, having served as writer-in residence at the universities of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Victoria as well as Memorial University of Newfoundland. Since winning the 1994 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for The Gathering<\/em>, Scofield has published over half a dozen volumes of poetry. <\/em>He has also received the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) and the Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize (2016).<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cBe Full of Dread, But Do It Anyway\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lorna Crozier on Risk-Taking and Embracing the Strange<\/p>\n\n\n\n interview<\/a> by Erinn Sturgeon<\/p>\n\n\n\n featured in Portal 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writing and Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018 Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n delivered<\/a> by Lorna Crozier<\/p>\n\n\n\n February 8, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lorna Crozier<\/span> is an Officer of the Order of Canada who has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching, and her mentoring. She is also a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and holds five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her work has been translated into several languages, and The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels<\/em> one of its Top 100 Books of the Year. Crozier has performed for Queen Elizabeth II. She was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. After That <\/em>is her most recent collection of poetry. She lives on Vancouver Island and has read her poetry on every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Lorna Crozier<\/span> is an Officer of the Order of Canada who has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching, and her mentoring. She is also a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and holds five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her work has been translated into several languages, and The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels<\/em> one of its Top 100 Books of the Year. Crozier has performed for Queen Elizabeth II. She was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. After That <\/em>is her most recent collection of poetry. She lives on Vancouver Island and has read her poetry on every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n To Think With Your Mouth:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Translating Time and Language with Er\u00edn Moure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBiography<\/summary>\n
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