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Here are the exciting results of the innovative City Poems Project initiated by Vancouver’s sixth poet laureate to stimulate public engagement with poetry about local, historical, cultural and ecological sites within the unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples that we now know as Vancouver.
Winning poems from the city-wide contest are showcased, along with site-based poems from well-known local published poets. Read about the award-winning videos made by student teams based on these poems. Find out about promising next steps, including the development of a geolocative app.
The publication includes links to the VPL YouTube Channels with the 44 poetry videos (trailer with excerpted clips below), and other additional resources about Vancouver poetry and local history, as well as a special resource for teachers with links to specific poems and poetry videos about diverse sites.
City Poems is a launching pad for future collaborations, integrating the distilled language of poetry and the visual impact of film and video.