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Gene Robinson

Vicky Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947) is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire.

Robinson is widely known for being the first openly gay priest to be consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate, a matter of significant controversy. After his election, many theologically traditional Episcopalians in the United States abandoned the Episcopal Church, formed the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and aligned themselves with bishops outside the Episcopal Church in the United States, a process called the Anglican realignment. His story has appeared in print and film.

In 2010, Robinson announced his intention to retire in 2013 at 65. His successor is A. Robert Hirschfeld.

Early life
Robinson's parents were poor tenant farmers who worked in the tobacco fields as sharecroppers. The family used an outhouse, drew water from a cistern, and did laundry in a cast-iron tub over an open flame. Their house did not have running water until Robinson was ten years old. When Robinson was born, he was so seriously ill that the doctor was certain he would not survive. He was temporarily paralyzed from birth and his head was misshapen. So likely was Robinson's death that the physician asked Robinson's father Charles for a name for the baby's birth and death certificates. Robinson's parents were young (his mother Imogene was twenty) and they were hoping for a girl. They named the baby "Vicky Gene Robinson" for Charles' father Victor and the baby's mother Imogene. For a long time, Robinson's parents believed the boy would die soon. Much later in life, Robinson's father would tell him he couldn't take any joy in the boy's development because he always thought each step was going to be the last thing. Robinson's parents were members of a small Disciples of Christ congregation. Robinson describes his childhood as very religious. Robinson had perfect Sunday School attendance for thirteen years.

Education and marriage
Robinson chose the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1965 because they offered him a full scholarship. Robinson intended to study towards a medical degree but decided to major in American studies. During his college days, Robinson began to seriously consider the ordained ministry and said it almost immediately felt right. During high school and then college, Robinson had been exploring philosophical and theological questions and has said, "The Episcopal Church got a hold on me." He graduated from Sewanee cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies in 1969 and attended seminary that fall. Robinson studied for a Master of Divinity degree from the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York City.

While doing an intern year as a chaplain at the University of Vermont, he began dating his future wife, Isabella "Boo" Martin. Robinson says that about "a month into their relationship, [he] explained his background and his fears about his sexuality." They continued dating and, as Robinson puts it, "about a month before the marriage, [he] became frightened that ... this thing would raise its ugly head some day, and cause her and me great pain." Robinson and Martin discussed it and decided to go ahead with the marriage in 1972.

Early career and children
Robinson received his degree in 1973 and was ordained a deacon in June 1973 at the cathedral of the diocese of Newark, New Jersey. He served as curate at Christ Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and was ordained a priest six months later. He and his wife remained at the Ridgewood parish for two years until June 1975. They then moved to New Hampshire, where Boo had grown up. Their goal was to start a business and ministry: in the winter it was called "The Sign of the Dove Retreat Center" and in the summer it became "Pony Farm". Boo still runs "Pony Farm" as a horse camp for children.

In 1977, Robinson began working with a committee in the Diocese of New Hampshire to study human sexuality and co-authored a small manual on the subject. Robinson and Boo's first daughter, Jamee, was born in 1977, followed by a second daughter, Ella, in 1981. Robinson treasures his marriage stating, "[T]hat is inextricably tied up with having children. And since I cannot imagine my life without Jamee and Ella, it's just a completely irrelevant question for me. And I don't regret having been married to Boo, either, even if there had not been children. It's just a part of my journey, and why would I possibly regret that?"

Coming out and career
Robinson came out to his and Boo's friends in 1986 and he sold his share in the business to Boo. They remained friends.

In November 1987, Robinson met his partner, Mark Andrew, while on vacation in St. Croix. Andrew worked in Washington, D.C., at the national office of the Peace Corps. On July 2, 1988, Robinson and Andrew moved into a new house in Weare, New Hampshire and had it blessed by Bishop Douglas Theuner, an event which they considered to be the formal recognition of their life together. The couple were legally joined in June 2008 in a private civil union ceremony in St Paul's Church, Concord. Earlier, Robinson had said, "I always wanted to be a June bride." Robinson and Andrew divorced in 2014.

Robinson became Canon to the Ordinary in 1988, the executive assistant to the then bishop of New Hampshire, Douglas Theuner. Robinson remained in this job for the next seventeen years until he was elected bishop.

Robinson and his daughters are very close. Ella helped her father with public relations at the General Convention in 2003. Just a week before. his daughter Jamee had given birth to his first granddaughter.

Election as bishop
Robinson was elected bishop by the New Hampshire diocese on June 7, 2003, at St. Paul's Church in Concord. Thirty-nine clergy votes and 83 lay votes were the threshold necessary to elect a bishop in the Diocese of New Hampshire at that time. The clergy cast 58 votes for Robinson, and the laity voted 96 for Robinson on the second ballot. The Episcopal Church requires in its Canon 16 that the election procedure and the candidate who is elected be subjected to review and must be consented to by the national church. No objections were raised to the procedure of the election. If diocesan election occurred within 120 days (3 months) of a General Convention, canon law requires consent by the House of Deputies and then the House of Bishops at the General Convention itself. Consent to the election of Robinson was given in August at the 2003 General Convention. The General Convention of 2003 became the center for debate over Robinson's election, as conservatives and liberals within the Church argued over whether Robinson should be allowed to become bishop. Some conservative factions threatened a schism within both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion should Robinson be elected. Before the House of Deputies can vote on a resolution, a legislative committee must examine the piece of legislation first. The Committee on the Consecration of Bishops held a two-hour hearing on Robinson's election and supporters and opponents were allowed to speak. One of the speakers was Robinson's daughter, Ella, who read a letter from his ex-wife Boo in strong support of Robinson. The House of Deputies, which consists of laypersons and priests, voted in the affirmative: the laity voted 63 in favor, 32 opposed, and 13 divided; the clergy voted 65 in favor, 31 opposed, and 12 divided.

Robinson won the first two of three votes required for his election to be ratified, but allegations suddenly arose in August 2003 that Robinson had inappropriately touched a male parishioner and had connections with OutRight.org, which at the time carried a link to AllThingsBi.com, a resource site for bisexual people that included links to pornography sites. The final vote was postponed to address these last-minute charges. David W. Virtue, a critic of gay ordination, brought up the pornography allegation, claiming that: "Gene Robinson's website is linked by one click to 5,000 pornographic websites." When no such link was found on the Diocese of New Hampshire web page profiling the bishop-elect, Virtue stated that the link was on the website of an organization Robinson supported. Robinson was already known to be associated with Outright, a secular organization for the support of young LGBT people. Fred Barnes, a Fox News commentator, repeated the allegations on the website of The Weekly Standard. On the day the allegations arose, the website issued a press release stating that it had removed the offending link, that it had been unaware of the pornographic links on allthingsbi.com, and that Robinson had no involvement with that particular chapter of Outright.

The male parishioner of Manchester, Vermont (in a diocese neighboring Robinson's) who had alleged the "touching" was then reported to have said, during the investigating committee's telephone call with him, that the acts in question were two separate occasions of what felt to him like intentionally seductive arm-squeezing and back-stroking, although in a public setting. The man acknowledged that others might have regarded the two incidents as "natural", yet the incidents were disturbing to him nonetheless. The investigating committee's report also stated that the man regretted having used the word "harassment" in his e-mail, and that the man declined an invitation to bring formal charges. After a two-day investigation, neither allegation proved of merit. The House of Bishops voted for Robinson in the affirmative, with 62 in favor, 43 opposed, and 2 abstaining.

Consecration as bishop
The election in New Hampshire, like all elections of bishops in the Episcopal Church, was done by a synodical election process, unlike many other parts of the Anglican Communion where bishops are appointed. This detail would be misunderstood when the international commentary following Robinson's election suggested he should voluntarily step down or be asked to do so. The Jeffrey John case in the Church of England is the best example to contrast the election of bishops with the appointment of bishops. Jeffrey John is an openly gay priest living in a long-standing celibate relationship (he self-identifies as celibate) and was appointed as a bishop. One person alone, Richard Harries, then Bishop of Oxford, had the authority to appoint the Bishop of Reading (an area bishop in Oxford diocese), though new bishops are customarily consecrated by the archbishop. Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury, however, allegedly persuaded Harries to not proceed with the appointment. This precedent would be used by the wider Anglican Communion to pressure Robinson. Robinson said that "there was not a single bishop involved in the choosing of me to be Bishop of New Hampshire."

The Elections and Transitions Committee arranged for the Whittemore Center to be used for the consecration, a large hockey rink on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham. The numbers expected were about 3,000 people, 300 press, a 200-strong choir, and 48 bishops. The security was strong: just as Barbara Harris had to wear a bullet-proof vest at her consecration, Robinson was showing his bullet-proof vest to Harris herself. Robinson's parents, sister, daughter and their families and his ex-wife Boo were all at the consecration. Robinson was consecrated on November 2, 2003, in the presence of Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop, and six co-consecrating bishops: 48 bishops in all.

Robinson's election and consecration prompted a group of 19 bishops, led by Robert Duncan, Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, to make a statement warning the church of a possible schism between the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, stated that "[it] will inevitably have a significant impact on the Anglican Communion throughout the world and it is too early to say what the result of that will be." He added: "[I]t is my hope that the church in America and the rest of the Anglican Communion will have the opportunity to consider this development before significant and irrevocable decisions are made in response." Desmond Tutu, Archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, stated that he did not see what "all the fuss" was about, saying the election would not roil the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. Other senior bishops of the church, like Peter Akinola, Archbishop of the Church of Nigeria and head of the Global South, have made Robinson a figurehead in their dispute with the Episcopal Church. Some disaffected Episcopalians have disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church and formed the Convocation of Anglicans in North America with the support of the Nigerian church.

Episcopate
Reports from Britain describe how Robinson has received death threats, had to wear bulletproof vests, and needed protection since his election and consecration.

In February 2006, Robinson was treated at an inpatient rehabilitation facility to deal with his "increasing dependence on alcohol". Diocesan officials were surprised by the news and asserted that they did not notice his alcoholism affect his ministry in any way. The Episcopal Church, through its General Convention, has long recognized alcoholism as a treatable human disease, not a failure of character or will. The members of the Standing Committee issued a statement fully supporting Robinson. He returned to work in March 2006.

Robinson was featured prominently in a documentary film entitled For the Bible Tells Me So, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

He has opposed the Roman Catholic ban on homosexual seminarians, stating: "I find it so vile that they think they are going to end the child abuse scandal by throwing out homosexuals from seminaries."

Due to the controversy surrounding his consecration, Bishop Robinson was not invited to the 2008 Lambeth Conferences by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. A group of conservative bishops (including Akinola and Duncan) who opposed Robinson's consecration gathered in Jerusalem one month prior to Lambeth 2008, at the Global Anglican Future Conference, an event which is perceived by some as schismatic.

Robinson did however visit the United Kingdom privately in July 2008, during which he participated in a film screening and question and answer session with Sir Ian McKellen at the Royal Festival Hall, and was invited to preach at St Mary's Putney, events which attracted much media attention. The sermon was interrupted by a heckler who was then escorted out of the service. Robinson asked the rest of the congregation, most of whom greeted the interruption with slow-clapping, to "pray for that man", before completing his sermon. The Primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, on July 22 at a public press conference during the 2008 Lambeth Conference called for Robinson to resign, and for all those who had participated in his consecration to confess their sin to the conference.

In 2009 Robinson was selected to deliver the invocation at the kickoff event of President Barack Obama's inaugural weekend. Despite his extended involvement with Obama during the campaign, his selection was widely discussed as an effort to counterbalance the role of the choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren. Media outlets noted Warren compared the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the legalization of "incest, polygamy or 'an older guy marrying a child'". Warren also supported California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. However, Warren took a conciliatory tone towards Obama: "I applaud his desire to be the president of every citizen." The kickoff event was held at the Lincoln Memorial two days before Obama's swearing-in. It asked "the God of our many understandings" for seven blessings, and to help Obama, as president, in seven ways. Neither HBO's exclusive live broadcast, nor the Presidential Inauguration Committee's blog of the event included the invocation, but the prepared text was posted in full on the website of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, and video shot informally by attendees was posted on YouTube. National Public Radio, which relied on the HBO feed that omitted it, broadcast a recording the following day with an interview of Robinson about its limited exposure; in that venue, Robinson described it as conforming to the four-fold Franciscan prayer model. According to the Washington Blade, it was the Presidential Inaugural Committee that made the decision for the prayer to be a part of the pre-show and not the show, itself, with a spokesman from that committee maintaining the prayer was dropped through an unspecified "error." Some gay activists maintain that this was a slight on the part of the Obama administration.

In April 2009, Robinson made the Out magazine Third Annual Power 50 list of the most influential gay men and women in the US, landing at number 7. In August 2009, Gene Robinson was a key speaker at the 2009 Greenbelt Festival, held at Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire, England. Here he delivered three talks, each garnering an attendance in the thousands, based not only on his views of Christianity and homosexuality, but also on human sexuality in general and the rights of LGBT members of society. The three talks were entitled "Homosexuality: What the Bible says & why it matters", "Keeping your cool in the eye of the storm" and "Sexuality and spirituality: keeping them together". As well as these three talks, Gene Robinson made a big impact on some gay and lesbian festival-goers by leading them collectively in prayer on the second night of the festival as part of a small group.

In 2009 he was given the Stephen F. Kolzak Media Award.

In 2012, Macky Alston premiered a documentary about Robinson, Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Changing the World, it was screened at Sundance Film Festival.

Since retirement
After resigning as bishop of New Hampshire in 2013, Robinson moved to Washington, D.C. to join the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow and serve as bishop-in-residence at St. Thomas' Parish. In 2014, Robinson and his husband, Mark Andrew, divorced. In 2017, Robinson was named Vice-President and Senior Pastor of the Chautauqua Institution, a center for arts, education, recreation and religion in upstate New York.

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Harry Somers

Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer.

Somers earned the unofficial title of "Darling of Canadian Composition." He was a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC) and involved in the formation of other Canadian music organizations, including the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian Music Centre. He received commissions from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Early life
Somers was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 11, 1925. Somers did not become involved in formal musical study until he reached his teenage years in 1939 when he met a doctor and his wife—both pianists—who introduced him to classical works. Somers described this first encounter years later: "A spark was ignited, and he became obsessed with music. Almost from that instant, he knew music would be his life, for better or for worse."

Musical education
14-year-old Somers began his study of piano after his first exposure under the tutelage of Dorothy Hornfelt, the neighborhood piano teacher. After two years of study with her, he was able to pass the Grade VIII examination at the Toronto Conservatory.

In 1942, Somers began studying under [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/reginald-godden-emc#:~:text=Reginald%20Godden.,D%20LITT%20(York)%201985. Reginald Godden] at the conservatory, whom he stayed with until 1943. Godden later directed him to pursue formal studies under John Weinzweig. Weinzweig set up a program of traditional harmony study for him to study the 12-tone techniques. (Schoenberg had enforced similarly strict lessons in traditional harmony upon his own pupils, even as he encouraged them to explore dodecaphony.) Somers remained under Weinzweig’s instruction until 1949.

Somers took a sabbatical from his studies in 1943 to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After WWII, Somers returned to the Royal Conservatory to continue his studies with Weinzweig with a new piano teacher, Weldon Kilburn. During this time, Somers was writing and performing his own works. Somers completed his studies at the conservatory in 1948 and then spent the summer in San Francisco studying piano under E. Robert Schmitz. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

In 1949, Somers started to focus on composition. In 1949, he was awarded a $2000 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association scholarship to spend a year in Paris studying composition with Darius Milhaud. Somers composed his suite for harp and orchestra in 1949. In Paris, Somers heard the music of Boulez and Messiaen; these composers would influence his later music.

1950s and 1960s
After his year with Darius Milhaud, Somers spent the 1950s devoted to composition. He earned his income as a music copyist. He composed his Symphony No.1 in 1951. In the 1950s, he improved his guitar skills. In the 1960s, he earned money of his commissions. He returned to Paris for more compositional studies with Canada Council for the Arts fellowship. While there, he concentrated on Gregorian chant, particularly its revival by the Solesmes Abbey. In 1963, he became a member of the John Adaskin Project, which was an in-school initiative. Also in 1963, Somers began his part-time career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by hosting televised youth concerts.

Somers's first wife, Catherine Mackie, died in 1963.

In 1965, Somers began hosting the CBC radio series "Music of Today" and continued hosting it until 1969. He also became the special consultant of the North York School in Toronto from 1968–9. In 1967, he remarried to the Canadian actress Barbara Chilcott. Also in 1967, he produced his best-known work, the opera Louis Riel, commissioned for Canada’s Centennial Year celebrations. In 1969, he received an $18,000 grant from the Canadian Cultural Institute in Rome. He spent two years there, during which time he wrote Voiceplay and Kyrie.

1970s – 1990s
In 1971, after he returned to Canada from his work in Rome, Somers was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was awarded three honorary doctorates: one from the University of Ottawa (1975), one from York University (1975), and one from the University of Toronto (1976). In 1977, Somers made a visit to the USSR. While there, he gave lectures on Contemporary Canadian composition and spoke to other contemporary composers. During the 1980s, Somers received commissions for the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Guelph Spring Festival, the S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition and the Canadian Opera Company.

In the 1990s, he composed two operas, Serinette to a libretto by James Reaney, and Mario the Magician, which was adapted from a story by Thomas Mann.

Somers also completed his music Third Piano Concerto in 1996. Somers gave the opening address at the Alberta Music Conference in 1993, wrote a choral piece for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, and served as the writer-in-residence for the first "Word and Music Festival" held at the University of Windsor in 1997. Canada honoured him in 1995 with tribute concerts given by the University of Ottawa and the National Arts Centre for his 70th birthday.

Somers died on March 9, 1999, in Toronto, Ontario.

Styles
Harry Somers had an eclectic approach. His performed in the US, Central and South Americas, Europe and the Soviet Union. Hisan works include techniques such as vocalization, vowel and breath sounds, and timbrel inflections. The styles that are said to have influence Sommer the most are the music of Weinzweig, Bartók and Ives, Baroque counterpoint, serial technique and Gregorian chant.

Under Weinzweig, during the 1940s, Somers received his first formal instruction in composition. Prior to that point, he composed mainly in the style of the piano works he was playing. In 1950s, Somers focused on the use of fugue-related textures and techniques. Over half of the works written between 1950 and 1961 contain fugal movements. Some of his works feature "sharp, nervous, rhythmic vitality, which often serves as a foil for slower-moving subsidiary melodic lines."

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Phichit province

Phichit (พิจิตร,, lit. 'beautiful') is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (changwat) lies in lower northern Thailand and 330 km due north of Bangkok. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Phitsanulok, Phetchabun, Nakhon Sawan, and Kamphaeng Phet.

Geography
The Nan and Yom Rivers flow through Phichit province, joining shortly before the Chao Phraya is formed. The province mainly consists of low fertile river plains, making rice and lotus the main crops. The total forest area is just 17 km² or 0.4 percent of provincial area.

History
The town of Phichit was established in 1058 by Phraya Kotabongthevaraja (พระยาโคตระบอง), and was first part of the Sukhothai Kingdom, and later of Ayutthaya. An old temple in Pho Prathap Chang District is Wat Pho Prathap Chang (วัดโพธิ์ประทับช้าง). It was built by Phra Chao Suea, an Ayutthaya king, in 1701 at a site reputed to be his birthplace. The site is surrounded by double-walls and huge trees, some of which are over 200 years old.

The name of the main city changed several times. At first it was called Sa Luang ('city of the royal pond'). In Ayutthaya times it was called Okhaburi ('city in the swamp'), and then finally Phichit ('beautiful city').

Symbols
The provincial seal shows a pond, which refers to the old name of Phichit, Mueang Sa Luang ('city of the royal pond'). The banyan tree in front refers to Wat Pho Prathap Chang. The temple was built in 1669–1671 by King Luang Sorasak, who was born in the village of Pho Prathap Chang, between a banyan and a sacred fig.

The flag of Phichit shows the circular provincial seal in the middle. It has three green bars and two white horizontal bars, with the middle bar being interrupted by the seal.

The provincial tree is the ironwood. The provincial flower is the lotus.

The provincial motto (loosely translated) states as follows:

 * "Hometown of Phra Chao Suea. The long boat racing festival. Superb amulets of Luang Pho Ngoen. Delightful Bueng Si Fai. Unified by Luang Pho Phet. Tasty Tha Khoi pomelos. Delicious and famed rice. The legend of Chalawan city."

Health
The main hospital in Phichit is Phichit Hospital, operated by the Ministry of Public Health.

Rail
Phichit main station is Phichit railway station.

Administrative divisions
The province is divided into 12 districts (amphoes). These are further divided into 89 subdistricts (tambons) and 852 villages (mubans).

Local government
As of 26 November 2019 there are: one Phichit Provincial Administration Organisation (ongkan borihan suan changwat) and 28 municipal (thesaban) areas in the province. Phichit, Taphan Hin and Bang Mun Nak have town (thesaban mueang) status. There are a further 25 subdistrict municipalities (thesaban tambon). The non-municipal areas are administered by 73 Subdistrict Administrative Organisations (SAO) (ongkan borihan suan tambon).

Human achievement index 2022
Since 2003, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at sub-national level using the Human achievement index (HAI), a composite index covering all the eight key areas of human development. National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has taken over this task since 2017.

Notable people

 * Suriyenthrathibodi: 29th King of Ayutthaya
 * Sanan Kachornprasart: politician
 * Yodrak Salakjai: luk thung singer
 * Santi Duangsawang: luk thung singer
 * Busaba Athisthan: luk thung singer
 * Chuchart Trairatanapradit: professional snooker player
 * Den Junlaphan, known professionally as Eagle Kyowa: professional boxer
 * Jirayu Tangsrisuk (James): actor, singer, model

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A.I. Love You

A.I. Love You (A・I が止まらない!) is a Japanese manga series by author Ken Akamatsu. The story follows Hitoshi Kōbe, a high school boy who isn't good at anything but programming. He creates a program in particular named Program 30 which is that of a female, and is shocked when she comes to life in the real world due to a lightning storm. Hitoshi names her Saati and teaches her about the real world, while she instructs him on how to properly have a girlfriend. Things get more complex however when two more of Hitoshi's programs come to life, and a hacker goes after Saati's program. A.I. Love You was first serialized through Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1994, but later moved to Magazine Special where it ended in 1997. The series was collected into nine manga volumes that were also released by Kodansha between 1994 and 1997. Two re-releases followed; however, each time a volume was deducted.

In 2003, Tokyopop acquired the license to release the series in North America. The story's title was changed but Tokyopop tried to keep a pun that had been used in the original Japanese title. Eight English language manga volumes were released between February 3, 2004, and April 12, 2005. The volumes were printed until 2009 when Tokyopop announced that the series would go out of print. The English adaptation was well received, and although reviewers pointed out that Akamatsu's artwork was not at the professional level yet, they praised the story and characters.

Plot
The story centres on Hitoshi Kōbe, an average first-year in high school who fails miserably in academic, athletic and social situations.

Hitoshi has only one thing going for him: his ability to program computers. In fact, he is so good at this he has created programs that can rewrite themselves: Artificial Intelligence, in other words. So far he has created thirty of these programs, and the latest — which he names Saati (the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "thirty") — is so advanced that it can converse just like a real girl.

However, there is still the barrier of Hitoshi being in the physical world and Saati being a program, until one day a freak lightning strike materializes her into the real world, where she becomes the girlfriend of Hitoshi. The series then follows their now not so ordinary lives, as well as other A.I.s of Hitoshi's creation as they attempt to keep Saati's secret while she adapts to the lifestyle of humans.

Release
A.I. Love You was serialized through manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1994 starting in the 18th issue, and going until Issue 40. Publisher Kodansha then switched the manga to Magazine Special where the series ended in 1997. The chapters were collected into nine tankōbon volumes between September 16, 1994 and October 17, 1997. The series was subsequently re-released by Kodansha through KC Deluxe from November, 1999 to June, 2000 this time though with eight volumes. The final re-release took place between November 17, 2004, and June 17, 2005 again by Kodansha, but with seven volumes.

In June 2003, A.I. Love You showed up on Tokyopop's website but was removed shortly after. Tokyopop announced a month later though at Anime Expo 2003 that it had officially licensed the series for an English language release in North America. The first volume released came out on February 3, 2004, altogether eight volumes were released. Tokyopop released the final volume on April 12, 2005, and continued printing the series up until August 31, 2009 when it was announced that all eight volumes would be out of print. Although discontinued, the company offered returns for those who desired up until March 1, 2010. The discontinuation was a result of Kodansha letting its licenses expire with Tokyopop which led to the removal of some of company's biggest titles.

Naming
The original Japanese title, A・I が止まらない! (A.I. ga Tomaranai!), is a play on words. While it roughly means "Cant Stop Love" the word "A.I." has several meanings. Besides being the acronym for artificial intelligence, it is also the Japanese word for "love" (愛) and the Japanese transcription of the English word "I" (アイ). Tokyopop does their best to recreate this pun with their US release of the series in which this case they added "Love You" to create a pun referring to the statement "I Love You" in A.(I. Love You).

Reception
The English language adaptation of the manga series has received reviews from various media outlets that provide feedback, and reception in regards to manga. Samantha from Manga Life gave the first book an A rating calling it a "very deep series". When talking about the characters she says that they all have bright personalities, and are overall loveable. Allen Divers from Anime News Network also gave the first volume a review calling the story predictable. Allen goes on to say though that the simple love story aside from the fan service "can keep the ladies happy as well". In his review of the first volume, Mike Dungan from Mania.com called the story "amateurish" saying that they have predictable plots to them. Mike praises the English release though for being far better when it comes to the artwork, and design than the original Japanese release. He finishes his review saying that while the artwork isn't yet at the Love Hina level, (This was Akamatsu's first manga) Ken's fans "won't want to do without it" citing the evolution of Akamatsu's artwork.

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List of Canadian poets

This is a list of Canadian poets. Years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.

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 * Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
 * Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright
 * José Acquelin (born 1956)
 * Gil Adamson, novelist, poet, and short-story writer
 * Randell Adjei
 * Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953), Haitian native living in Canada since 1970; novelist, poet and writer of children's books
 * Neil Aitken (born 1974), poet, editor, and translator
 * Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (born 1965), Anishinaabe writer and poet from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, founder (in 1993) of Kegedonce Press, specializing in indigenous writers
 * Donald Alarie (born 1945), writer, poet, and teacher
 * Edna Alford, editor, author, and poet who co-founded the magazine Dandelion
 * Sandra Alland (born 1973), Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, small press publisher, and activist
 * Donna Allard, editor and poet
 * Lillian Allen (born 1951), dub poet
 * Anne-Marie Alonzo (1951–2005), playwright, poet, novelist, critic, and publisher, born in Egypt and moved to Canada at the age of 12
 * George Amabile (born 1936)
 * Madhur Anand (born 1971), poet and scientist
 * Marguerite Andersen (1924–2022), German-born, primarily francophone writer, academic and editor
 * Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), English-born Canadian poet and academic
 * Rod Anderson (1935), poet, musician, and accountant
 * Michael Andre (born 1946), poet, critic, and editor living in the United States
 * Jeannette Armstrong (born 1948), Syilx Okanagan author, educator, artist, and activist
 * Tammy Armstrong
 * David Arnason (born 1940), author and poet
 * Joanne Arnott (born 1960), Métis poet, essayist, and activist writer
 * Margaret Atwood (born 1939), poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist, and activist
 * Charlotte Aubin
 * Martine Audet (born 1961)
 * Oana Avasilichioaei, poet and translator
 * Margaret Avison (1918–2007)

B

 * Ken Babstock (born 1970)
 * Elizabeth Bachinsky
 * Alfred Bailey (1905–1997), poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator
 * Jacob Bailey (1731–1808), Church of England clergyman and poet born in the United States (colony of New Hampshire), immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
 * Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is an Anishnabe poet and author
 * Chris Banks (born 1970)
 * Kaushalya Bannerji, Indian-born poet
 * Frances Bannerman (1855–1944), painter and poet
 * Simina Banu
 * Joelle Barron
 * John Barton (born 1957)
 * Gary Barwin (born 1964), author, composer, children's writer, and poet
 * Jalal Barzanji (born 1953), Kurdish poet and writer living in Canada since 1998
 * Shaunt Basmajian (1950–1990), poet and author
 * Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (born 1967)), Ivoirian born poet and journalist
 * Bill Bauer (1932–2010), American-born, living in Canada since 1965, husband of Nancy Bauer
 * Nancy Bauer (born 1934), American-born, living in Canada since 1965, wife of Bill Bauer
 * Doug Beardsley (born 1941), poet and academic
 * Nérée Beauchemin (1850–1931), francophone poet and physician
 * Derek Beaulieu (born 1973), poet, publisher, and anthologist.
 * Joseph-Isidore Bédard (1806–1833), poet, lawyer, and politician
 * Ven Begamudré (born 1956), Indian-born poet, short-story writer, novelist, and academic
 * Henry Beissel (born 1929), poet, author, writer, and editor
 * Billy-Ray Belcourt
 * Ken Belford (born 1946)
 * Lesley Belleau
 * Marlène Belley (born 1963),
 * John Bemrose, arts journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright
 * Gwen Benaway
 * Roxanna Bennett
 * Robbie Benoit (died 2007), poet and writer
 * Jovette Bernier (1900–1981), Quebec poet, novelist, and journalist
 * Jean-Philippe Bergeron (born 1978), francophone writer and poet
 * Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941), author and poet
 * Navtej Bharati, Indian-born poet and writer in Punjabi and English, publisher of Third Eye Press
 * Bertrand Bickersteth
 * Robert Billings (1949–1986), poet and editor
 * Earle Birney (1904–1995)
 * Bill Bissett (born 1939)
 * Cassandra Blanchard
 * Mark Blagrave (born 1956), writer, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and academic
 * Robin Blaser (1925–2009), author and poet
 * Laurie Block (born 1949), poet and educator
 * E. D. Blodgett (1935–2018), poet, literary critic, and translator
 * Ali Blythe, poet and editor
 * Selina Boan
 * Robert Boates (born 1954)
 * Christian Bök, (born Christian Book 1966), poet and author
 * Dennis E. Bolen, (born 1953), novelist, journalist and poet
 * Stephanie Bolster (born 1969), poet and academic
 * Shane Book
 * Roo Borson pen name of Ruth Elizabeth Borson (born 1952), American native living in Canada
 * Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932), Tunisian-born Canadian poet, novelist, and academic
 * Arthur Bourinot (1893–1969), poet and lawyer
 * George Bowering (born 1935), novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
 * Marilyn Bowering (1949), poet, novelist, and playwright
 * Tim Bowling (born 1964), poet and novelist
 * Alex Boyd (born 1969), poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, and editor
 * Frances Boyle
 * D. M. Bradford
 * Kate Braid (born 1947), poet and teacher
 * Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (1963–2008), novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer, and short-story writer
 * Shannon Bramer (born 1973), poet and teacher
 * Dionne Brand (born 1953), poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to Canada
 * Di Brandt née "Diana Ruth Janzen" (born 1952), poet and literary critic
 * Jacques Brault (1933–2022), French Canadian poet and translator
 * Diana Brebner (1956–2001)
 * Brian Brett (born 1950), poet and novelist
 * Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012), poet and academic
 * Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), poet, typographer, and author
 * Eve Brodlique (1867–1949), poet, author, journalist
 * David Bromige (1933–2009), Canadian poet living in the United States since 1962
 * Nicole Brossard (born 1943), francophone poet and novelist
 * Audrey Alexandra Brown (1904–1998)
 * Ronnie R. Brown (born 1946), United States-born living in Canada for most of her adult life
 * Colin Browne
 * Charles Tory Bruce (1906–1971), poet, journalist and fiction writer
 * Julie Bruck
 * Suzanne Buffam
 * April Bulmer (born 1963)
 * Murdoch Burnett (1953–2015), poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist
 * Mick Burrs (1940–2021)
 * Aaron Bushkowsky (born 1957)
 * Arthur de Bussières (1877–1913)

C

 * Charmaine Cadeau
 * Alison Calder (born 1969), poet and academic
 * Frank Oliver Call (1878–1956)
 * Barry Callaghan (born 1937), author, poet, and son of the author Morley Callaghan
 * Jason Camlot (born 1967), poet, scholar, and songwriter
 * Anne Cameron (born 1938), novelist, poet, screenwriter, and short-story writer
 * George Frederick Cameron (1854–1885), poet, lawyer, and journalist
 * Wilfred Campbell (1858–1918), poet and Anglican clergyman
 * Natalee Caple (born 1970), novelist and poet
 * Paul Cargnello (born 1979), Montreal poet, lyricist
 * Bliss Carman (1861–1929), poet and critic
 * Anne Carson (born 1950), poet, essayist, translator, and academic
 * Kate Cayley, poet, writer, and theatre director
 * Weyman Chan (born 1963), poet
 * Catherine Chandler (born 1950), poet, translator, and academic
 * William Chapman (1850–1917), poet, journalist, and bureaucrat
 * Jean Charbonneau (1875–1960), francophone poet who was the primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
 * Herménégilde Chiasson (born 1946), Acadian poet, playwright, journalist, academic, and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
 * Robert Choquette (1905–1991), novelist, poet, and briefly (1968–1970) a diplomat
 * Lesley Choyce (born 1951), novelist, writer, children's book writer, poet, and academic who founded Pottersfield Press and hosts the television program "Choyce Words" and "Off the Page"; born in the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1979
 * Margaret Christakos (born 1962), poet and university writing teacher
 * Evie Christie (born 1979), poet
 * Jillian Christmas, poet
 * Chuan Sha, Chinese-born Canadian poet and author
 * Dave Clark, musician (Rheostatics) and poet
 * George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), poet and playwright.
 * Wayne Clifford (born 1944)
 * Fred Cogswell (1917–2004)
 * Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
 * Matt Cohen, (1942–1999), writer and poet
 * Victor Coleman
 * Don Coles (1928–2017), poet, author, and academic
 * Stephen Collis, poet and academic
 * John Robert Colombo (born 1936), poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist
 * Daria Colonna
 * Anne Compton (born 1947), poet, critic, and anthologist
 * Wayde Compton (born 1972), poet, writer, turntable-based "sound poetry" performer, academic who co-founded Commodore Books, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada
 * Jan Conn (born 1952), Canadian-born geneticist and poet living in the United States
 * Karen Connelly (born 1969), writer and poet
 * Kevin Connolly (born 1962), poet, writer, and critic
 * Dennis Cooley (born 1944), poet and academic
 * Afua Cooper (born 1957), Jamaican-born historian and dub poet
 * Judith Copithorne (born 1939), concrete and visual poet
 * Paulo da Costa, Canadian-Portuguese author, editor, and translator
 * Sonia Cotten (born 1974), poet
 * Maya Cousineau Mollen
 * Dani Couture (born 1978), poet, essayist, critic, and journalist
 * Thomas Cowherd (1817–1907), tinsmith and poet
 * Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), poet, novelist, and short-story writer
 * Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), francophone poet who has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse
 * Lynn Crosbie (born 1963), poet and novelist
 * Lorna Crozier (born 1948), writes under the name Lorna Uher
 * Michael Crummey (born 1965), poet and writer
 * Julie Crysler, journalist and poet
 * Nancy Jo Cullen, poet and short story writer
 * Jen Currin, United States-born poet
 * Kayla Czaga (born 1989), poet

D

 * Cyril Dabydeen (born 1945), native Guyana poet and writer living in Canada
 * Kalli Dakos (born 1950), children's poet and teacher
 * Michel Dallaire (1957–2017), novelist and poet
 * Mary Dalton, poet and academic
 * Joseph A. Dandurand, Native American poet, playwright, and archaeologist
 * Jean-Paul Daoust (born 1946), poet
 * Beverley Daurio (born 1953)
 * Frank Davey (born 1940), poet and academic
 * Lynn Davies (born 1954), poet
 * Nicholas Flood Davin (1840–1901), lawyer, journalist, politician, and poet
 * Tanya Davis, spoken-word poet and musician
 * Tom Dawe (born 1940), writer, poet, children's book author, and artist
 * Adriana de Barros (born 1976), Portuguese native who moved to Canada at age 3; illustrator, web designer, and poet
 * Sadiqa de Meijer (born 1966)
 * James Deahl (born 1945), moved to Canada from the United States in 1970 and a citizen of both countries; poet, academic, and publisher of Unfinished Monument Press; founding member of the Canadian Poetry Association
 * Kris Demeanor, poet, musician and actor
 * Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, performance art duo who have collaborated on performances, films, videos, publications, and public art projects since 1989
 * Barry Dempster (born 1952), poet and novelist
 * Joe Denham, poet and fiction writer
 * Adebe DeRango-Adem
 * Michelle Desbarats, poet
 * Anne-Marie Desmeules, poet
 * Christopher Dewdney (born 1951), poet, writer, artist, creative-writing teacher, and writer-in-residence at various universities
 * Ann Diamond (born 1951), an award-winning Montreal poet, novelist, and short-story writer
 * Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-born, Canadian poet and priest
 * Mary di Michele (born 1949), Italian-born, Canadian poet, author, and creative-writing teacher
 * Adam Dickinson, poet
 * Robert Dickson (1944–2007), poet, translator, and academic
 * Kildare Dobbs (1923–2013), Indian-born teacher, poet, editor, short-story writer, and travel writer who moved to Canada in 1950
 * Jeramy Dodds (born 1974), poet
 * Don Domanski (born 1950)
 * Magie Dominic (born 1944), poet and artist
 * Jeffery Donaldson, poet and critic
 * David Donnell (1939–2020), poet and writer
 * Candas Dorsey (born 1952), poet and science fiction novelist
 * Clive Doucet (born 1946), writer, poet, and politician
 * Gordon Downie (1964–2017), songwriter, poet, and musician
 * Orville Lloyd Douglas (born 1976), poet and writer
 * Stan Dragland (born 1942), novelist, poet and literary critic
 * William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poet
 * Louis Dudek (1918–2001), poet, literary critic and publisher
 * Marilyn Dumont (born 1955), poet and educator
 * Klara du Plessis, poet

E

 * Evelyn Eaton (1902–1983), novelist, short-story writer, poet, and academic
 * Vic Elias (1948–2006), American-born, living in Canada from 1979, poet and academic
 * David Elliott (1923–1999), poet and academic
 * Rebecca Elson (1960–1999), Canadian-American astronomer, academic writer, and poet
 * Crispin Elsted
 * Karen Enns
 * Reuben Epp (1920–2009) teacher, school administrator, writer and poet in Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German)
 * Michael Estok (1939–1989)

F

 * Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), English-born Canadian writer, educator and political activist
 * Brian Fawcett (1944–2022), poet, novelist, nonfiction author and writer
 * Charles Fenerty (c. 1821–1892), poet, journalist, and inventor. Published two poems in book format in 1855 and 1866, and wrote over 32 poems (mostly published in local newspapers).
 * Ferron, born Debby Foisy (1952), folk singer, songwriter and poet
 * George Fetherling, wrote as "Doug Feathering" or "Douglas Fetherling" until 1999 when he began using his middle name (born 1949), American-born poet, novelist, journalist and essayist who moved to Canada at age 18 and became a Canadian citizen
 * Connie Fife
 * Robert Finch (1900–1995), poet and academic whose area of expertise was French poetry
 * Joan Finnigan (1925–2007), writer, poet, teacher and newspaper reporter
 * Jon Paul Fiorentino, poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and editor of Matrix magazine
 * Judith Fitzgerald (born 1952), poet and journalist
 * Polly Fleck
 * Robert Ford (1915–1998), poet, translator and diplomat
 * Raymond Fraser (born 1941), novelist, poet, biographer, essayist and editor
 * Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), French Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short-story writer
 * Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943), French Canadian poet, dramatist, journalist, and Catholic nun
 * Patrick Friesen (born 1946), poet and university-level creative writing teacher
 * Mark Frutkin (born 1948), American-born novelist and poet who moved to Canada in 1970 as a Vietnam War draft resister

G

 * Rhonda Ganz
 * Keith Garebian (born 1943) critic, biographer, and poet; born in Bombay, India, and immigrated to Canada in 1961
 * François-Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant, and historian
 * Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912–1943), first modernist French Canadian poet
 * Bill Gaston (born 1953), novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet
 * Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (1824–1882), French Canadian poet and novelist
 * Marty Gervais (born 1946), poet, photographer, professor, journalist, and publisher of Black Moss Press
 * Chantal Gibson
 * Elsa Gidlow
 * Angus Morrison Gidney (1803–1882), educator, poet, and journalist
 * Gerry Gilbert
 * Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (1871–1918), painter and poet
 * John Glassco (1909–1981), poet, memoirist, and novelist
 * Jacques Godbout (born 1933), novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker, and poet
 * Gérald Godin (1938–1994), French Canadian poet and politician
 * Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861)
 * Leona Gom (born 1946), novelist and poet
 * Katherine L. Gordon
 * Spencer Gordon, Toronto-based writer
 * Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), science fiction novelist and poet
 * Nora Gould
 * Susan Goyette (born 1964), poet and novelist
 * Neile Graham (born 1958), poet and academic
 * Alain Grandbois (1900–1975), French Canadian poet
 * Hannah Green
 * Richard Greene
 * Leslie Greentree, poet, short-story writer, and freelance writer
 * Ralph Gustafson (1909–1995), poet and academic
 * Genni Gunn (born 1949), novelist, poet, and translator
 * Kristjana Gunnars, Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist
 * Stephen Guppy

H

 * Paul Haines (1933–2003), poet and jazz lyricist, born in the United States and later a Canadian resident
 * Helen Hajnoczky (born 1985), visual poet
 * Phil Hall (born 1953), poet, academic, and publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under the Flat Singles Press imprint since 1976
 * Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), short-story writer, poet, and photographer
 * Jennica Harper
 * Claire Harris (1937–2018)
 * Michael Harris
 * Richard Harrison
 * Paul Hartal (born 1936), painter and poet, born in Hungary
 * Jill Hartman (born 1974 in poetry), poet and editor
 * Diana Hartog
 * Elisabeth Harvor (née Deichman) (born 1936), novelist and poet
 * Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
 * Charles Heavysege (1816–1876)
 * Anne Hébert (1916–2000), French-Canadian novelist and poet
 * Wilfrid Heighington (1897–1945), soldier, writer, poet, lawyer, and politician
 * Steven Heighton (1961–2022), novelist and poet
 * David Helwig (1938–2018), poet, novelist, and essayist; father of Maggie Helwig
 * Maggie Helwig (born 1961), poet, novelist, peace and human rights activist; daughter of David Helwig
 * Anna Minerva Henderson (1887–1987), poet and civil servant
 * Brian Henderson (born 1948), poet, academic, and editor
 * Jason Heroux (born 1971), third poet laureate of Kingston, Ontario, born in Montreal
 * Benjamin Hertwig
 * Robert Hilles (born 1951), poet and novelist
 * Robert Hogg (1942–2022)
 * Susan Holbrook
 * Clive Holden
 * Norah M. Holland (1876–1925), poet, playwright, journalist, editor
 * Nancy Holmes
 * Cornelia Hoogland (born 1952), poet and academic
 * Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978), poet and playwright
 * Leah Horlick
 * Sean Horlor (born 1981) poet, former speechwriter, freelance writing consultant
 * Karen Houle
 * Liz Howard
 * Harry Howith (1934–2014)
 * Ray Hsu, poet and academic
 * David Huebert
 * Annie Campbell Huestis, poet (1878-1960)
 * Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
 * Al Hunter poet, author, tribal leader, and activist
 * Aislinn Hunter (born 1969), poet and author
 * Bruce Hunter (born 1952), teacher, poet, fiction writer, and lifewriter
 * Catherine Hunter (born 1957), poet, novelist, editor, academic, and critic
 * Chris Hutchinson (born 1972)
 * Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816–1891), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist
 * Maureen Hynes (born 1948), poet

I

 * Susan Ioannou (born 1944)
 * Doyali Islam
 * Frances Itani (born 1942), novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist

J

 * Suzanne Jacob (born 1943), novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic
 * Edna Jaques (1891-1978), poet
 * Jemeni (born 1976), actress, writer and activist
 * E. A. Jenns (1860-1930), poet
 * Paulette Jiles (born 1943), American-born poet and novelist who moved to Canada in 1969
 * Rita Joe (1932–2007), Mi'kmaq-Canadian poet and songwriter, called the "poet laureate of the Mi'kmaq people"
 * E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake" (1861–1913)
 * Jim Johnstone
 * D. G. Jones (1929–2016), poet, translator, and educator
 * El Jones, poet and activist
 * Julie Joosten
 * Clifton Joseph
 * Eve Joseph (born 1953), poet and author

K

 * Surjeet Kalsey, poet, dramatist, short-story writer, and translator who writes in both Punjabi and English
 * Smaro Kamboureli, poet and academic
 * Donna Kane
 * Adeena Karasick, poet and academic
 * Rupi Kaur, poet and illustrator
 * Lionel Kearns, poet and teacher
 * Diane Keating
 * Kaie Kellough
 * M. T. Kelly (born 1946), novelist, poet, and playwright.
 * Penn Kemp, novelist, playwright, poet and sound poet
 * Leo Kennedy (1907–2000), modernist poet, published in the 1930s
 * Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854–1926), poet, journalist, and farmer
 * Roy Kiyooka (1926–1994), photographer, poet, and artist
 * Barbara Klar
 * Johann Peter Klassen (1868–1947), Russian Mennonite poet and writer who immigrated to Canada in 1923 and wrote primarily in German
 * Sarah Klassen (born 1932), poet and fiction writer
 * A. M. Klein (1909–1972), poet, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer
 * Raymond Knister (1899–1932), novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, and journalist
 * Joy Kogawa (born 1935), poet and novelist
 * Jules Arita Koostachin
 * Maka Kotto (born 1961), Cameroon-born francophone Canadian, provincial level politician, former Canadian House of Commons member who published a book of poetry in 2002
 * Shane Koyczan (born 1976), spoken word poet
 * Robert Kroetsch (1927–2011), novelist, poet, non-fiction writer, and academic
 * Aaron Kreuter
 * Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 1952), novelist, poet, and academic

L

 * Kama La Mackerel
 * Sonnet L'Abbé, poet and critic
 * Pierre Labrie (born 1972), French Canadian poet
 * Edward A. Lacey
 * Ben Ladouceur
 * Chloé LaDuchesse
 * Dany Laferrière (born 1953), Haitian-born francophone novelist, journalist, and poet who moved to Canada in 1976
 * Annie Lafleur
 * Catherine Lalonde (born 1974), French Canadian poet and journalist
 * Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)
 * Tim Lander (born 1938)
 * Patrick Lane (1939–2019)
 * M. Travis Lane (born 1934), American-born Canadian poet who moved to Canada in 1960
 * Rina Lasnier (1915–1997), French Canadian poet and playwright
 * Evelyn Lau (born 1971), poet and novelist
 * Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
 * Irving Layton (1912–2006)
 * Georgette LeBlanc
 * Gérald Leblanc (1947–2005), French Canadian poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and writer
 * Félix Leclerc (1914–1988), songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, actor, radio announcer, radio scriptwriter, and writer
 * Dennis Lee (born 1939), poet, writer and children's fiction author
 * John B. Lee (born 1951), author, poet, and academic
 * Lily Alice Lefevre (1854–1938)
 * Sylvia Legris (born 1960)
 * John Lent (1948–2006), poet and novelist
 * Douglas LePan (1914–1998), diplomat, poet, novelist, and academic
 * Alex Leslie
 * Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953), poet, short story writer, and non-fiction writer
 * Katherine Leyton
 * Tess Liem
 * Tim Lilburn (born 1950), poet and essayist
 * Charles Lillard (born 1944–1997), poet and historian
 * Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996)
 * Billie Livingston (born 1965), novelist and poet
 * Douglas Lochhead (1922–2011), poet, librarian, and academic
 * Jennifer LoveGrove
 * Pat Lowther (1935–1975)
 * Laura Lush
 * Richard Lush (born 1934)
 * Michael Lynch

M

 * Rozena Maart (born 1962), poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, academic, and psychotherapist; South African living in Canada
 * Annick MacAskill
 * Kathy Mac
 * Karen Mac Cormack (born 1956), experimental poet born in Zambia, who holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, she has moved from Toronto to Buffalo, New York, with her husband, poet Steve McCaffery
 * Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), poet, children's literature, short story writer and essayist
 * Hugh MacDonald (born 1945), poet, children's writer and editor
 * Wilson MacDonald (1880–1967)
 * Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), novelist and poet
 * Walter Scott MacFarlane (1896–1979), poet and soldier
 * Tom MacInnes (1867–1951), poet and writer
 * Andrea MacPherson, poet and novelist
 * Jay Macpherson (13 June 1931–21 March 2012), poet and academic (a woman)*
 * Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942), author and poet
 * Charles Mair (1838/1840–1927), poet and political activist
 * Robert Majzels (born 1950), novelist, poet, playwright, and translator
 * Alice Major, contemporary poet
 * Kim Maltman (born 1951), poet and physicist (a man)
 * Donato Mancini
 * Eli Mandel (1922–1992), poet, essayist, and academic
 * Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (born 1953), Jamaican-born dub poet, theatre producer, and artistic director; Jamaican native living in Canada
 * David Manicom (born 1960), diplomat, poet, and novelist
 * Lee Maracle (born 1950), Native American poet and author
 * Blaine Marchand
 * Nicole Markotic, poet and novelist
 * Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle (born 1942)
 * Tom Marshall (1938–1993), Canadian poet and novelist
 * Émile Martel
 * Garth Martens
 * Camille Martin (born 1956), poet and collage artist
 * Sid Marty (born 1944), poet, author, and musician
 * Robin Mathews (born 1931), poet and professor, known for his political activism in support of Canadian independence from U.S. domination
 * Seymour Mayne (born 1944), poet and literary translator
 * Micheline Maylor (born 1970), poet and academic
 * Chandra Mayor (born 1973), poet and novelist
 * Robert McBride (1811/1812–1895), Irish-born Canadian poet
 * Steven McCabe, contemporary artist and poet
 * Steve McCaffery (born 1947), poet and academic born in England and moved to Toronto in 1968; husband of poet Karen MacCormack
 * Julia McCarthy
 * Susan McCaslin (born 1947), poet and academic
 * Alma Frances McCollum (1879–1906), poet and composer
 * Kathleen McCracken
 * John McCrae (1872–1918), poet, physician, author, artist, and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres; best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.
 * Roy McDonald (1937–ca. 2018), poet and busker (street performer)
 * David McFadden (born 11 October 1940), poet, fiction writer, and travel writer
 * Robin McGrath
 * Wendy McGrath, poet and novelist
 * David McGimpsey, poet, humorist, and academic
 * Nadine McInnis (born 1956), poet, short-story writer and essayist
 * James McIntyre (1828–1906), called The Cheese Poet
 * Don McKay (born 1942) poet editor and educator
 * Barry McKinnon (born 1944)
 * Brendan McLeod (born 1979), poet novelist, member of The Fugitives.
 * Emily Julian McManus (1865–1918), poet, author, and educator
 * Susan McMaster (born 1950), poet literary editor and spoken word performer
 * Amber McMillan, poet and writer
 * Eugene McNamara (1930–2016), poet, author and teacher
 * Steve McOrmond (born 1957), poet and academic
 * Mary Melfi (born 1951), Italian-born poet novelist, and playwright who immigrated to Canada as a young child
 * Joshua Mensch
 * Iman Mersal (born 1966), Egyptian-born Egyptian/Canadian poet and professor of Arabic literature
 * Bruce Meyer (born 1957), poet and academic
 * Shayne Michael
 * Anne Michaels (born 1958), poet and novelist
 * Pauline Michel, novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter
 * Marianne Micros
 * Roy Miki (born 1942), poet and academic
 * Phebe Florence Miller (1889–1979), poet and diarist
 * Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004)
 * Roswell George Mills
 * Gaston Miron (1928–1996), French Canadian poet writer and editor
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), primarily an author, but also a poet from Prince Edward Island
 * Marion E. Moodie (1867–1958), nurse, botanist, and poet
 * Susanna Moodie (1803–1885), British-born Canadian author and poet
 * Jacob McArthur Mooney (born 1983)
 * Shani Mootoo
 * Pamela Mordecai (born 1942), Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar, and poet living in Canada since 1994
 * Pierre Morency (born 1942), French Canadian writer, poet, and playwright
 * Dwayne Morgan spoken word artist, motivational speaker, event organizer, and poet
 * Jeffrey Morgan, primarily a writer, but with poetry published in Rolling Stone and Bakka Magazine
 * Kim Morrissey (born 1955), poet and playwright
 * Colin Morton (born 1948)
 * A. F. Moritz (born 1947), poet and academic
 * Garry Thomas Morse
 * Daniel David Moses (born 1952), Native American Canadian poet and playwright
 * Erín Moure (born 1955)
 * Jane Munro (born 1943)
 * Sachiko Murakami
 * William Murdoch (1823–1887), Scottish-Canadian poet, writer and gasworks manager who immigrated to Canada in 1854
 * George Murray, poet and associate editor at Maisonneuve Magazine, contributing editor at several literary magazines
 * Susan Musgrave (born 1951), poet and children's writer

N

 * Akhtar Naraghi
 * André Narbonne
 * Roger Nash (born 1942), English-born philosopher, poet, and academic
 * Lyle Neff (born 1969), poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
 * Lorri Neilsen Glenn, poet, ethnographer, essayist, and academic
 * Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), francophone poet from Quebec
 * Holly Nelson (2005–2006), writer, poet, activist, journalist, leader of the Green Party of Manitoba
 * Pierre Nepveu (born 1946), French Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist
 * W. H. New (born 1938), poet, editor, and literary critic
 * bpNichol (1944–1988), born Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces, poet and writer
 * Cecily Nicholson
 * Emilia Nielsen
 * John Newlove (1938–2003)
 * Alden Nowlan (1933–1983), poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist

O

 * Patrick O'Connell (1944–2005)
 * Alexandra Oliver
 * Tolu Oloruntoba
 * Sheree-Lee Olson, novelist, poet, and journalist
 * Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), Sri Lankan novelist and poet with Canadian citizenship
 * Heather O'Neill, novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist
 * Gabriel Osson
 * Fernand Ouellette (born 1930)
 * Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born 1930), French-Canadian writer, novelist, essayist, and poet
 * Richard Outram (1930–2005), poet and writer; co-founder with his wife, Barbara Howard, of The Gauntlet Press
 * Catherine Owen, poet and musician

P

 * Susan Paddon
 * P. K. Page (1916–2010)
 * Corrado Paina (born 1954), Italian poet living in Canada since 1987, editorial director of the quarterly magazine ItalyCanada Trade
 * Arleen Paré
 * Fawn Parker
 * Lisa Pasold
 * John Pass (born 1947), English-born Canadian poet and academic who has lived in Canada since 1953; married to poet and novelist Theresa Kishkan
 * Philip Kevin Paul
 * Amy Parkinson (1855–1938), English-born Canadian poet
 * Neil Peart (1952–2020), musician, songwriter, producer, author, and drummer of the Canadian Rock band Rush
 * Soraya Peerbaye
 * W. T. Pfefferle, poet, writer, and academic
 * Anthony Phelps
 * M. NourbeSe Philip (born 1947), poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer
 * Ben Phillips (born 1947), poet, teacher, and publisher
 * Alison Pick, poet and novelist
 * Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born 1975), American-born poet, spoken-word poet, writer, educator, and social activist living in Canada
 * Jean-Guy Pilon (1930–2021), French Canadian poet
 * Sarah Pinder
 * George Pirie (1799–1870), newspaper publisher and poet
 * Alycia Pirmohamed
 * Al Pittman (1940–2001), poet and playwright
 * Michel Pleau
 * Emily Pohl-Weary, novelist, poet, and magazine editor
 * Craig Poile
 * Laurent Poliquin (born 1975), French Canadian poet and academic
 * Sandy Pool
 * Joël Pourbaix
 * B. W. Powe (born 1955), author, poet, and academic
 * Claire Pratt (1921–1995), artist, poet, and editor; daughter of writer and editor Viola Whitney and E. J. Pratt, a poet and academic
 * E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), poet and academic
 * Frank Prewett (1893–1962), poet and broadcaster, who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom; a war poet of World War I
 * Robert Priest (born 1951), poet and children's author
 * Stefan Psenak (born 1969), French Canadian poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Al Purdy (1918–2000), writer, editor, and poet

Q

 * Andy Quan (born 1969), author who moved to Australia
 * Marion Quednau
 * Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright
 * Sina Queyras, poet and academic

R

 * Kenneth Radu
 * Gurcharan Rampuri poet of Punjabi descent who writes in the Punjabi language
 * Theodore Harding Rand (1835–1900), educator and poet
 * Ian Iqbal Rashid (born 1971), Canadian/British Muslim poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker of Indian descent; has lived primarily in London
 * Angela Rawlings (a.k.a. a.rawlings)
 * James Reaney (1926–2008), poet, playwright, and literary critic
 * Michael Redhill (born 1966), American-born Canadian poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Beatrice Redpath (1886–1937), poet and short story writer
 * D. C. Reid (born 1952), poet, novelist, and short-story writer
 * Jamie Reid (1941–2015)
 * Shane Rhodes
 * Robin Richardson
 * Lisa Richter (born c. 1977), poet, winner of the 2020 (U.S.) National Jewish Book Award for poetry
 * Emily Riddle
 * Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943), poet and prose writer; called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" for his influence on other poets
 * Lisa Robertson (born 1961), poet, essayist, and writer
 * Matt Robinson (born 1974)
 * Shima Aisha Robinson aka Dwennimmen, Edmonton's Poet Laureate
 * Ajmer Rode, poet, playwright, and writer in Punjabi and English
 * Gordon Rodgers (born 1952), poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist
 * Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948), Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, co-founder of Aquelarre Magazine; exiled from Chile after the 1973 coup; writes in both Spanish and English and translates her own work
 * Janet Rogers First Nations poet
 * Linda Rogers (born 1944), poet and children's writer
 * Joe Rosenblatt (1933–2019), Governor General's Award-winning experimentalist
 * Laisha Rosnau (born 1972), novelist and poet
 * Bruce Ross, poet, author, academic, and past president of the Haiku Society of America
 * Stuart Ross (born 1959), writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor
 * W.W.E. Ross (born 1894), imagist poet of the 1920s and 1930s, has been called "Canada's first modern poet"
 * Annie Rothwell (1837–1927), writer of paeans to colonial forces during the North-West Rebellion and other imperial wars, she was known among contemporary critics mainly as a war poet.
 * Nancy-Gay Rotstein
 * Stephen Rowe (born 1980)
 * André Roy

S

 * Lake Sagaris (born 1956), journalist, poet, and translator living in Chile
 * Rodney Saint-Éloi
 * Denis St-Jules (1950-2024)
 * Trish Salah, academic, writer, and poet whose first volume of poetry appeared in 2002
 * Rebecca Salazar
 * Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and prose writer, critic, editor, and academic born in England, immigrated to Canada in 1953
 * Charles Sangster (1822–1893)
 * Robyn Sarah (born 1949)
 * Félix-Antoine Savard (1896–1982), priest, academic, poet, novelist, and folklorist
 * Jacob Scheier, poet whose first collection of verses won the 2008 Governor General's Award for English poetry, editor, son of Libby Scheier, lives in New York City
 * Libby Scheier (1946–2000), United States-born poet and short-story writer who moved to Canada in 1975, mother of Jacob Scheier
 * Andreas Schroeder (born 1946), German-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
 * Stephen Scobie (born 1943), poet, critic, and academic
 * Gregory Scofield (born 1966)
 * Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947), poet and writer
 * F. R. Scott, also known as Frank Scott (1899–1985), poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
 * Jordan Scott
 * Peter Dale Scott (born 1929), poet and academic
 * Olive Senior (born 1941), Jamaican poet and short-story writer living in Canada
 * Robert W. Service (1874–1958), poet and writer
 * Kathy Shaidle (born 1964), author, columnist, and poet
 * Francis Sherman (1871–1926)
 * Joseph Sherman (1945–2006), poet and visual arts editor
 * Carol Shields (1935–2003), American-born Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and writer
 * Trish Shields, poet and novelist
 * Ann Shin
 * Sandy Shreve, poet, newspaper reporter, and office worker
 * Goran Simic (born 1952), Bosnian-born poet, playwright, and short-story writer living in Canada since 1995
 * Melanie Siebert
 * Bren Simmers
 * Anne Simpson (born 1956), poet and novelist
 * jaye simpson
 * Bardia Sinaee
 * Sue Sinclair
 * George Sipos
 * Sonja Skarstedt (born 1960), poet, short-story writer, playwright, painter, and illustrator who founded and edited the now-defunct literary magazine Zymergy (1987–1991), and founded Empyreal Press in 1990
 * Robin Skelton, sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Georges Zuk", a purported French surrealist (born 1925–1997), British-born Canadian academic, writer, poet, translator, and anthologist who immigrated to Canada in 1963; a founder and editor of The Mahalat Review
 * Daniel Sloate (1931–2009), translator, poet, playwright, and academic
 * Carolyn Smart (born 1952), English-born poet, author and academic
 * Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986), poet and novelist whose book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with English poet George Barker
 * A. J. M. Smith (1902–1980), poet and academic
 * Clara Kathleen Smith (1911–2004), poet and educator
 * Douglas Burnet Smith (born 1949)
 * John Smith (born 1927–2018), poet and academic
 * Michael V. Smith novelist, poet and filmmaker
 * Ron Smith (born 1943), poet, author, editor, playwright, and former academic; founder and co-publisher of Oolichan Books in 1984; influential in the founding of Theytus Books in 1971
 * Steven Ross Smith (born 1945), poet, arts journalist, Poet Laureate of Banff, previous Director Literary Arts, Banff Centre
 * Karen Solie (born 1966)
 * David Solway (born 1941), poet, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic
 * Madeline Sonik (born 1960), novelist, short-story writer, children's-book author, editor, and poet
 * Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1959), poet and editor, living in Montreal, co-founder of Poetry Quebec magazine
 * Raymond Souster (1921–2012), Toronto poet
 * Esta Spalding (born 1966), American-born Canadian author, screenwriter, and poet
 * Heather Spears (1934–2021), poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark since 1962
 * Birk Sproxton (1943–2007), poet and novelist
 * Harold Standish (1919–1972), poet and novelist
 * George Stanley, American-born poet and academic associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years, moved to Canada in the 1970s; associated with New Star Books and the Capilano Review
 * Carmine Starnino, essayist, educator, and editor
 * Jason Stefanik
 * John Steffler (born 1947), poet and novelist
 * Ian Stephens (died 1996), journalist, musician, and poet associated with the spoken word movement
 * Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948), poet born in Brazil, educated in the United States
 * Richard Stevenson
 * Shannon Stewart
 * W. Gregory Stewart (born 1950), poet, science fiction author, short-story writer who works at a public utility and lives in Los Angeles, California
 * John Stiles, poet living in London, United Kingdom
 * Anne Stone, poet, writer, and performance artist
 * Betsy Struthers (born 1951), poet and novelist
 * Andrew Suknaski (1942–2012), Saskatchewan poet
 * Alan Sullivan (1868–1947), poet, short-story writer, railroad surveyor, and mining engineer
 * Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947), poet, biographer, academic, and anthologist
 * Moez Surani (born 1979), poet
 * John Sutherland (1919–1956), poet, literary critic, and magazine editor who founded and edited First Statement in 1942 and its successor publication, Northern Review in 1945
 * Robert Swanson (1905–1994)
 * Robert Sward (1933–2022), American and Canadian poet and novelist
 * George Swede (born 1940), Latvian-born Canadian children's writer and poet who writes Haiku in English
 * Todd Swift (born 1966), poet, editor, and academic living in the United Kingdom
 * Anne Szumigalski (1922–1999)

T

 * Proma Tagore
 * Bruce Taylor (born 1960)
 * Heather Taylor (born 1977), poet, playwright, and teacher living in England since 2002
 * Ruth Taylor (1961–2006), poet, editor, and academic
 * John Terpstra, poet and carpenter
 * Souvankham Thammavongsa, poet and short story writer
 * Sharon Thesen (born 1946), poet and academic
 * Serge Patrice Thibodeau (born 1959)
 * Kai Cheng Thom
 * Edward William Thomson (1849–1924), journalist, writer, and poet
 * John Thompson (1938–1976)
 * Russell Thornton, poet
 * Matthew Tierney (born 1970)
 * Jose Tlatelpas (born 1953), Mexican native and Canadian resident; Native cultures poet, publisher, and political activist
 * Mohamud Siad Togane (born 1943), Somali native and Canadian resident; poet, academic, and political activist
 * Lola Lemire Tostevin (born 1937), poet, novelist, and writer
 * Michaël Trahan (born 1984), poet
 * Kim Trainor, Vancouver poet
 * Rhea Tregebov (born 1953), poet and children's writer
 * Raymond D. Tremblay, poet, writer, social services agency official
 * Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer, and science-fiction consultant who moved to London, England in 1995
 * Tony Tremblay (born 1968), French-Canadian poet, writer, spoken word artist, journalist, and radio personality
 * Peter Trower (1930–2017), poet and novelist
 * Mark Truscott (born 1970), born in the United States
 * Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957), French-Canadian writer and poet
 * Arielle Twist
 * John Tyndall
 * Daniel Scott Tysdal (born 1978)

U

 * Marie Uguay (1955–1981), French-Canadian poet
 * Priscila Uppal (born 1974), poet and novelist
 * David UU (David W. Harris) (1948–1994), visual poet

V

 * Léonise Valois (1868–1936), first French Canadian woman to publish a collection of poetry
 * Peter van Toorn (born 1944)
 * R. M. Vaughan (1965–2020), poet, novelist, and playwright
 * Paul Vermeersch (born 1973)
 * Katherena Vermette
 * Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Quebec poet, publisher, and singer-songwriter; Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist
 * Pamelia Sarah Vining (1826–1897)
 * Garth Von Buchholz (also G.A. Buchholz), British Columbia poet, dark fiction author, playwright, journalist, and arts critic
 * Prvoslav Vujčić (born 1960)

W

 * Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin 1917–2004), poet, short-story writer, and translator
 * Michael Wade (1944–2004)
 * Fred Wah (born 1939), poet, novelist, and scholar
 * Bronwen Wallace (1945–1989), poet and short-story writer
 * Tom Walmsley (born 1948), playwright, novelist, poet, and screenwriter
 * Agnes Walsh (born 1950), actor, poet, playwright, and storyteller
 * David Waltner-Toews (born 1948), epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses, and ecosystem health
 * Terry Watada author, writer, and poet
 * Alison Watt (born 1957), writer, poet, and painter
 * Tom Wayman (born 1945), poet and academic
 * Phyllis Webb (1927–2021), poet and radio broadcaster
 * John Weier (born 1949)
 * Matthew James Weigel
 * Robert Stanley Weir (1856–1926), judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada
 * Zachariah Wells (born 1976), poet, critic, essayist, and editor
 * Darren Wershler-Henry (born 1966), experimental poet, non-fiction writer, and cultural critic
 * David Wevill (born 1935)
 * Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972), singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator, and television personality
 * Michael Whelan (born 1858–1937) teacher, bookkeeper, and poet
 * Joshua Whitehead
 * Bruce Whiteman (born 1952), poet, writer, scholar, and essayist
 * Isabella Whiteford (1835–1905), poet who also write under the name Caed Mille Failtha
 * Zoe Whittall (born 1976), poet and novelist
 * Anne Wilkinson (1910–1961), poet, writer, and essayist
 * Alan R. Wilson
 * Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946) poet, writer, editor
 * Sheri-D Wilson, poet and playwright
 * Rob Winger, poet and academic
 * Theresa Wolfwood, political activist and poet
 * George Woodcock (1912–1995), poet, essayist, critic, biographer, and historian; the founder (in 1959) of the journal Canadian Literature
 * Lance Woolaver (born 1948), author, poet, playwright, and director

Y

 * Isa Hasan al-Yasiri (1942), Iraqi-Canadian poet
 * J. Michael Yates (1938–2019), poet and dramatist
 * Leo Yerxa
 * Jean Yoon (born 1962), actor, poet, and playwright
 * D'bi Young, born in Jamaica, moved to Canada in 1993; dub poet, actor, and playwright
 * Ian Young
 * Josée Yvon

Z

 * Robert Zend (1929–1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and multi-media artist
 * David Zieroth
 * Rachel Zolf, poet and editor
 * Daniel Zomparelli
 * Carolyn Zonailo (born 1947), poet and publisher
 * Jan Zwicky (born 1955), philosopher, poet, essayist, and violinist

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Talk:Peppermint

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In the photo, which plant is which? Steven G. Johnson

I don't know about Corsican mint, but it seems to me that neither plant is peppermint. Imc 09:55, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed, it isn't Peppermint; I'm replacing it with another pic from commons - MPF 17:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

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Poor wording
"Peppermint oil is also an all-natural way to deter ants from being inside and outside the home" .. which means they are nowhere? Wording should be clarified to "inside or around". Also, peppermint oil can be made synthetically, so the moniker "all-natural" is not necessarily meaningful. Also, it sounds like an advertisement or endorsement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.233.26.244 (talk) 03:29, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Raises Body Temperature?
I've noticed repeatedly that combining mint tea with black tea causes my body temperature to rise. I can feel it in my scalp. Not so without the mint. Any explanation for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100E:B01C:5B77:2D31:DD59:E88C:A29F (talk) 05:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Sterile?
The article says "Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a (usually) sterile hybrid mint, a cross between Watermint (Mentha aquatica) and Spearmint (Mentha spicata)." (which is new to me, but seems plausible) and later "The wild form of the plant is less suitable for this purpose, with cultivated plants having been selected for more and better oil content."

Selection normally occurs through sexual reproduction. If it's sterile, how can plants be "selected"? --Singkong2005 05:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You cross selected specimens of M. aquatica and M. spicata, and look whether the obtained hybrid is better suited to your purpose than those produced in former crossings. Taragüí @ 10:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Medicinal Properties
I always eat peppermints candies when i have a headache and it normally works.

I was wondering if anyone knew to why that is. Does peppermint have some kind of effect to help get rid of headaches?

 * Find a credible source and site it. Also, please sign your posts with four tildes.  Stovetopcookies 22:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Works for me too User:Annonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.111.140.133 (talk) 03:13, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Neuroscience
The article cited in this section says that the AROMA of peppermint oil enhances alertness. It says nothing about the CONSUMPTION of peppermint oil enhancing memory, nor about quote professors giving it to students. This section is misleading; I would recommend removing it, or altering it significantly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.106.185 (talk) 19:53, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. I've modified what the article says to more accurately reflect what's in the cite. -- Escape Orbit  (Talk) 23:17, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I find the use of the word "can" somewhat unfitting for an encyclopedia. Saying professors "can" use the aroma of peppermint to aid student's memories seems very spurious and hypothetical. I have never heard of this practice ever actually occurring, if it does it should be cited, and merely mentioning that it is hypothetically possible is not fitting in an encyclopedia, in my opinion. Furthermore, the article mentioned says nothing about professors using peppermint aroma to aid student's memories, and so the citation at the end of that sentence is misleading, assuming a reader does not actually read the cited article (not an unreasonable assumption, given the huge number of citations in this entry). Almost anything can happen, and if encyclopedias were to list everything that is hypothetically possible, individual entries would be excessively and cumbersomely long. Furthermore, it is not the business of an encyclopedia to tell people what to do, merely to record verified knowledge. I would recommend removing the bit that professors "can" use this to enhance memory of students, as it seems to detract from the scholarly and factual style I believe an encyclopedia should convey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.182.99.192 (talk) 22:07, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

should we add?
that peppermint is a good pet name?
 * No, because that is an opinion. Wikipedia is a place for factual information. Stovetopcookies 22:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Create an article called List of good pet names. When it's nominated for speedy deletion, argue that there is encyclopedic value to it (though I don't see how). When the Wikipedia community answers with a resounding "no" to your article idea, post a blog with all your ill feelings towards Wikipedia. You can start by defining for me what a "good" pet name is. I always felt that Lucifer was a better pet name. Do you mean a name for a pet, or do you mean a pet name?

Mint Uses
"Drinking peppermint tea will help the body break down, metabolize, or otherwise purge inhaled dust and other pollutants, which goes a long way in staving off sinus congestion, sore throats, and other cold symptoms."

Does anybody have a source for this? I don't think this has been proven anywhere, at least not when I searched Pubmed and Google. I am thinking of removing or rewording this paragraph in order to emphasize that this is folk medicine. Any thoughts? —Effika 22:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Went ahead and removed the following: "Peppermint tea is an excellent elixir during winter months. As the days grow colder and shorter, people living away from the equator tend to spend more and more time indoors, often with less-than-perfect atmospheric conditons. See also dust. Drinking peppermint tea will help the body break down, metabolize, or otherwise purge inhaled dust and other pollutants, which goes a long way in staving off sinus congestion, sore throats, and other cold symptoms." —Effika 23:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

how can i get rid of it in my garden
 * Dump salt on your garden. Ignite the garden. Eat it. Make tea out of it. Sniff it. Put it in hot chocolate. Extract the oil from it and use it for aromatherapy. Sell it on eBay... -- 12.116.162.162 18:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Willamette Valley
Removing "Also, the Willamette Valley in Oregon produces the highest quality oil in the entire world." Aborlan 02:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:ENGVAR
Enough already people. At this point, it doesn't matter which version of english is on the page (since peppermint is neither purely English or American). Just let it be (so long as it's consistent). Really, this is getting to be a case of Don't edit war over the colour of templates. Thanks. -- B figura (talk) 23:01, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It would appear that this page has gone through a number of spelling reversions. My last edit has reverted it to UK English which is the spelling that the majority of the article had been written in originally.  Clear consistency is what is important and what it lacked, but there is also no reason for its piecemeal changing to US English.  That is what WP:ENGVAR states. -- Escape Orbit  (Talk) 23:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I haven't dug through the history enough, but that seems reasonable to me (unless someone has diffs that assert otherwise). Now that the article is consistent, I don't think there's any reason to change it again (aside from reverting people who are attempting to change it piecemeal). Best, -- B figura  (talk) 23:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

At the time of the first major contributor (Gurps npc) at 17:43, December 2, 2005, the article used American English. Up to that point it was consistently intermixed. Later it was re-intermixed until I fixed it (except for fibre which was also spelled fiber at some point) per WP:ENGVAR last May. To wholesale revert it now is a violation of WP:ENGVAR(Retaining the existing variety). VMS Mosaic 23:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Stepping in here as an admin – the species is native to Britain, but not native to the USA, so the regional spelling guidelines do apply. This takes precedence over first user, so the page should use BrE. - MPF 09:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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A topic of .....
Chewing gum has been added based on the following http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=chewing+gum+peppermint&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1 to control the risks of its produts--222.64.30.89 (talk) 23:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Could wiki admin please enable the auto numbering system for the article sections....
As the numbers of each section may changes with the times of its editing--222.67.205.85 (talk) 07:04, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Could someone please verify the correctness of the claim in the section of 7.0...
for the standard of ISO 676:1995. In addition to that, please also bing the info from the standard to this article, which are critical and missing, such as the identifier if available.--222.67.205.85 (talk) 07:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Updated Ref. 4...???
As the nomenclature system in Ref. 4 could be obsoleted due to the publishing of ISO 676 --222.67.205.85 (talk) 07:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Now ISO has published...
the amendment of ISO 676:1995/Cor 1:1997 after 8 June, 2009, but where are the critical reviews of both the docs???

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=4844

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=ISO+676&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1 --222.64.27.219 (talk) 22:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=botanical+nomenclature+spice&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1 --222.64.27.219 (talk) 22:19, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+botanical+nomenclature+condiment&btnG=Search --222.64.27.219 (talk) 22:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure we need a critical review [here] of a standard on botanical nomenclature, and the 3 scholar google links find nothing now. - Rod57 (talk) 10:25, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Also any critical review of .....
ISO 5563 ??? http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=ISO+5563&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1 --222.64.23.186 (talk) 22:37, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

and

ISO 856 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+ISO+856&btnG=Search --222.64.23.186 (talk) 22:40, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Should news article be added to this encyc article?
http://www.gogreenstreet.com/organic-peppermint-oil-school-suspension/ Skaizun (talk) 17:05, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Not this one, IMO. It says nothing about peppermint. - Rod57 (talk) 10:20, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

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Contains link to "Peppermint tea"... which redirects to this.
Self-link loop detected? No tool for such bullshit? But people write tools for detecting and correcting "comprised". Madness, thy name is Wikipedia. --jae (talk) 06:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

What is "rectified oil of peppermint?"
Some products--mainly dentrifices--are manufactured with an ingredient that in some English-speaking countries is listed as "rectified oil of peppermint" or even "double rectified oil of peppermint." Apparently it is used because no other flavorings can cover the taste of the soaps and detergents used to make toothpaste.

I know that in the world of organic chemistry, a rectified substance is one in which only a single enantiomer exists--that is, there are two or more possible isomeric forms in which a particular nexus within the molecule has taken one of two possible mirror-image forms, but the material has been processed or purified so that only one single isomer is present, at least within the constraints of the claimed degree of purity. This is done for various reasons. Perhaps, of the many possible forms of a complex molecule, only one has the desired effect or use (common in the pharmaceutical/biochemical fields) and removing the non-useful ones has the effect of making the substance being prepared more potent. Rectification may be done by, for example, recrystallization from solution and sorting the solid crystals by their shapes, or by the rotation of the plane of polarization they cause to polarized light shining through them (which varies with different enantiomers).

But, as far as I am able to determine, oil of peppermint isn't a single pure compound. It's a mulligan stew of chemicals; according to https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6850741#section=Top it is a mixture of plant terpenoids and at least six different furans, esters, and related compounds are present. I have found claims online that "rectification" is defined by some manufacturers as a synonym for "fractional distillation," but optically active isomers don't generally differ by very much in terms of boiling point, not sufficiently to make this a useful method of separating them, and the point would seem to be moot when we're talking about a mixture of half a dozen different compounds, not a pure compound.

So, as far as I am able to determine, "rectified peppermint oil" is oil of peppermint that has undergone some sort of purification process but it isn't clear exactly what has been done. Can anyone shed some light on this? It might also be appropriate to add to the article--I leave it to people more knowledgeable than I--that flavorings used in toothpaste are one of the biggest industrial uses for substances derived from the peppermint plant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:400:8000:7625:0:0:0:F8FD (talk) 04:04, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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File:Mint 2014-06-01 00-53.jpg
It's a mug's game to try to ID mints from a distant picture, but I don't think the photo at right, File:Mint 2014-06-01 00-53.jpg, is actually peppermint. To me it looks more like Spearmint. More to the point though, the uploader did not specify what species or variety it was, so there's not much basis for us to be making an assumption one way or the other. I would seek consensus to remove this image, or replace it with one with a definite identification from commons. Sauzer (talk) 18:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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