2022-2024 Poet Laureate
Her Legacy Project has involved four stages:
- Stage One: a Poetry Contest for youth and adults to write poems about historical, cultural or ecological sites within the city (January-June 2022)
- Stage Two: a Poetry Video Contest for selected post-secondary classes based on the prior year’s award-winning poems and a few other curated site-based poems (January-June 2023)
- Stage Three: development of a geolocated app in collaboration with UBC’s CEDaR team to enable the public to access audio-recordings of the site-based poems from Stages One and Two (2023-24)
- Stage Four: a writing retreat stage for the poet laureate to generate her own Vancouver-based poems (2023-2024)
Explore the exciting results of the innovative, collaborative City Poems Project initiated by Vancouver’s sixth poet laureate to stimulate public engagement in 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 poems from ten other acclaimed local poets. Read about the award-winning videos made by student teams based on the poems. Find out about promising next steps, including the development of a geolocative app. City Poems is a launching pad for future collaborations, integrating the distilled language of poetry and the visual impact of film and video.
Check out the VanPoet Blog to follow along with the City Poems Project.
Fiona Tinwei Lam’s City Poems Project has involved community outreach to encourage the generation of new poems and poetry videos to foster greater understanding about significant historical, cultural and ecological sites on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples now known as the City of Vancouver.
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