Dianne Hicks Morrow was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2013, serving until January 2016. The Devil Sends The truck dumps topsoil on the grass at the end of our long clay lane, the place the west wind burns by August. Barefoot I jump in the loamy earth, decide to make a rock...
Hugh MacDonald was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2009, serving until January 2013. At Merton’s Hermitage Five poets sit in a sort of symmetry our awkward placement of hands reading like young actors unused to the stage suspended somewhere between giddiness and serenity. How...
David Helwig was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2008, serving until December 2009. Negatives A monochrome adventuring: the chemicals spread on polymer and exposed to a flash of light hatch this peephole’s-worth of look, but glimpsed in reverse, black snow, slate skin...
Frank Ledwell was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2004, serving until December 2007. He died on August 14, 2008, at the age of 78. Tranquility When our children have gone at last, we’ll go and live by the ocean shore on the far side of the lake. We’ll cock our ears to catch...
John Smith was appointed PEI’s first poet laureate in December 2002, serving until December 2004. It is unbroken It is unbroken though forsaken, set in the tilt of trees toward the prevailing sun. Not lost, though unregarded, spoken in buried syllables. Now it rises, a slow star...
Parking will be restricted at Access PEI Montague (41 Wood Islands Road) on Wednesday, November 16 for parking lot paving. Paving should be completed by end of day on Wednesday. Individuals looking to access services at Access PEI Montague are asked to park at the Cavendish Farms...
The province of Prince Edward Island is introducing a new design for its license plates and for the first time, there will be a distinct plate for electric vehicles. “It has been almost a decade since Prince Edward Island introduced a new license plate design and it is time for a...
Natalie Jameson, Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning issued the following statement: “I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to the newly elected school board trustee for the Public Schools Branch and La Commission scolaire de langue française. This government...