• The Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a poet laureate position appointed by the municipal government of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia...
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    A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...
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  • Shauntay Grant (category Poets Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    Canadian author, poet, playwright, and professor. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the third poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is known for...
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    Tanya Davis (category Poets Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    Tanya Davis is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her style is marked primarily by spoken word poetry set to music...
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    George Elliott Clarke (category Poets Laureate of Toronto)
    Geraldine Clarke in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Queen...
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    El Jones (category Poets Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She was born...
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  • Susan Goyette (category Poets Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    presently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Dalhousie University. In April 2020, she was named the city's eighth poet laureate. Her stepson, Colin...
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  • Afua Cooper (category Poets Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    appointed as Halifax’s new poet laureate" Archived 22 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Global News, 23 April 2018. "Afua Cooper receives Nova Scotia Human...
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  • Rita Joe (category Poets Laureate of places in Canada)
    March 15, 1932 – March 20, 2007) was a Mi'kmaq poet and songwriter, often referred to as the Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq people. Rita was born March 15,...
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  • Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of West Hants. This area was part of Newport Township at the time of settlement primarily...
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