Welcome to the Elora Poetry Archives
Coming Events:
June 8, 2019: Chinese Poetry Day at Beaver House: The Chinese Pen Society of Canada (lunch at noon, sponsored by the Confucius Institute of Waterloo; readings at 1:00)
About
The Elora Poetry Archives website is a collaborative project related to the course EASIA 391R at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario. “The Beats, Buddhism, and Japanese Culture” examines the cultural cross-fertilization that occurred when several adventurous twentieth century American poets—notably Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, and Cid Corman—arrived in Japan during…
Blog
Pictured is Hanna Boos’s sculpture of the distinguished literary critic and professor Northrop Frye which, in bronze, can be viewed on the campus of Victoria University, University of Toronto. Hanna Boos studied under the sculptor Ingeborg von Rath in Dusseldorf, Germany, and later joined the workshop of the sculptor Frances Gage in … Continue reading Blog
Resources
Those who attended Micheal Basinski’s performance at the Elora Poetry Centre in the fall of 2015 will realise how honoured the Elora Poetry Centre felt when The Poetry Collection, Capen Hall, University at Buffalo, mounted a sizable part of the Centre’s Cid Corman collection, from November 2016 until January 2017. Dr. Basinski was head curator…
