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  • MENA Report, 10/2015
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    "Anne Michaels has inspired readers around the world with her works and now she can inspire them again as Toronto's new Poet Laureate," said Mayor John Tory. "I would like to congratulate and thank George Elliott Clarke for his tremendous commitment and passion as our Poet Laureate for the past three years." "The Poet Laureate position is one of the many ways that the City of Toronto supports the city's literary community," said Councillor Michael Thompson (Ward 37 Scarborough Centre), Chair of the City's Economic Development Committee. "Through the Poet Laureate, the Toronto Book Awards, the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Arts Council, we recognize and celebrate the importance of our writers." The position of Toronto's Poet Laureate was initiated in 2001, with Dennis Lee serving as Canada's first municipal Poet Laureate. Lee embarked on an ambitious program that saw the unveiling of a monument of poet Al Purdy at Queen's Park.