Lyric Intimacy in Contemporary Canadian Poetry

J.A. Weingarten is a Professor of Language and Liberal Arts at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. His research and teaching centre on twentieth-century Canadian literature and media with an emphasis on creative representations of cultural or personal histories in poetry, fiction, and theatre. In addition to his work on an edition of John Newlove’s letters and a book project on Canadian poets writing about history, he has recently published include reviews, articles, and interviews in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly, and Studies in Canadian Literature. He is also the co-managing editor and co-founder of The Bull Calf: Reviews of Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism.