What are some of the legacy projects created by poet laureates?
• Dennis Lee created the Cultural Legacy Program as his legacy project. The program weaves the names of Toronto’s artists and thinkers into the fabric of the city by naming streets, squares, parks and other public places after well-known figures. The renaming of the Toronto-Dominion Courtyard to Oscar Peterson Place was the first site to be designated as part of Dennis Lee’s Cultural Legacy Program. Pier Di Cicco’s urban philosophy has influenced municipal policy in Canada, the U.S. and United Kingdom and has moved the role of the poet laureate into the forum of global engagement in issues that address the urban aesthetic and its relationship to livable and sustainable cities. Sue MacLeods legacy project – To Find Us: words and images of Halifax, an anthology of poetry, prose and black and white photography Laureate. more info St. Johns Agnes Walsh has plans to establish a literary legacy program and rekindle Newfoundland’s historic ties with Portugal, whose fishing industry is closely
• Dennis Lee created the Cultural Legacy Program as his legacy project. The program weaves the names of Toronto’s artists and thinkers into the fabric of the city by naming streets, squares, parks and other public places after well-known figures. The renaming of the Toronto-Dominion Courtyard to Oscar Peterson Place was the first site to be designated as part of Dennis Lee’s Cultural Legacy Program. Pier Di Cicco’s urban philosophy has influenced municipal policy in Canada, the U.S. and United Kingdom and has moved the role of the poet laureate into the forum of global engagement in issues that address the urban aesthetic and its relationship to livable and sustainable cities. Sue MacLeods legacy project – To Find Us: words and images of Halifax, an anthology of poetry, prose and black and white photography Laureate. more info St. Johns Agnes Walsh has plans to establish a literary legacy program and rekindle Newfoundland’s historic ties with Portugal, whose fishing industry is closely
