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The official site of Vancouver’s Poet Laureate

2025-2027 Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner

Among other projects, Elee will be working on her Legacy Project, “Here, Hearing,” focused on sound and sonics within and around poems.

Here’s how to say her name: “elly kralljee gard-ner”.

The City of Vancouver acknowledges that it is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)