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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Lois is master of ceremonies for a the third annual poetry readings and open mic. sessions at the Arts Hub in Brockville, Ontario.  The event is on April 26 at 7:00 PM.

Summary: Poetry Readings (invited readers) and Open Mic. (volunteers from the audience)

Theme: Poems Inspired by Family and The River

Location: ARTS HUB 
- Lower Level Entrance of St. John's United Church
  32 Park St. Brockville, ON K6V2G4

Presenters:
  • Featured readers - Lois Lorimer and Carolyn Ciccoritti
  • Open mic. readers - Accepted at the event.

Attendance: All are welcome.
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Monday, February 20, 2023 

Lois is one of two featured poets invited to read new poems at the Art Bar Poetry Series in Toronto - 7:00 PM at the Free Times Cafe located at 320 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T1S3.

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  Saturday, September    24, 2022

Lois is a featured poet at the River City Reading Series at 7:00 PM in Brockville.  The venue is an art store on the main street called ​Medium Effort at 162 King Street West, Brockville, Ontario K6V3R5.  We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and The Writers' Union of Canada.
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Friday, April 10th, 2020

Lois is a featured poet in an online presentation, Poetry & Healing.  She will be reading 3 of her poems. They will be available throughout the month of April at the following website: http://poets.ca/poetry-and-healing/.
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Friday, February 14th, 2020

Lois is one of a dozen invited poets who will be writing personalized poems for people who attend The League of Canadian Poets presentation of Poetry in Union 2020, a public art experience at Toronto's Union Station.  The event runs between 12:00 PM and 7:45 PM.  ​

For more details, see: Readings.

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Book

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Variety Crossing Press

presents Lois Lorimer's book of poetry

​"Stripmall Subversive". 

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Lois Lorimer's poetry
is featured in the
​Toronto Poetry Map:
April 15, 2015

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​With the help of Toronto's poet laureate George Eliot Clarke, Toronto Public Library has created a new way to explore the city through poetry
  • Check out Lois's three poems about the Scarborough Bluffs and the Eastern part of Toronto on the following map:  www.torontopoetry.ca


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Biography of Lois Lorimer

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_Lois Lorimer was born in Brockville in Eastern Ontario, Canada. She has a B.A. from Queen's University, a B.Ed. from University of Toronto and a M. Ed. in Curriculum (Arts Focus) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is a graduate of the acting program, the National Theatre School of Canada.

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ACTOR As an actor, Lois performed for six seasons on stage at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake and in theatres in Toronto, London, and Saskatoon. A graduate of the National Theatre School, she is also a member of Canadian Actors Equity and ACTRA. She has radio, television and film credits.


POET Lois' passion is writing poetry. She has written with the Algonquin Square Table Writing Workshop at Hart House, University of Toronto. Lois is one of the a founding editors of InfluencySalon.ca and is a contributing editor to the online magazine. 

SPEAKER Lois frequents the poetry scene in Toronto and has been a featured poet presenting her poems at the Art Bar Poetry Series and the Plasticine Poetry Series.  She has also been a featured reader at poetry events in Cobourg and Hamilton.

TEACHER Lois spent over 20 years teaching Creative Writing, Drama and English at the high school level in Toronto. Currently, she is a leading teacher-librarian in her high school district. Lois specializes in curriculum development.

WRITER Lois has written articles for Influencysalon.ca, Teacher Librarian Magazine,   and is a member of The League of Canadian Poets .


Collection

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Buy Now from Amazon
First collection:   Stripmall Subversive
                         Variety Crossing Press
                         Released: December, 2012

Molly Peacock:   "In Lois Lorimer's radiant debut volume, Stripmall Subersive, innocence gleams inside experience.  That stripmall is all too real, but the subversion of Lorimer's poetry is subtle, shining and sophisticated.  Beauty and threat tangle in her poems, where a car drives off the Scarborough Bluffs or a homeless child suddenly discovers family possessions.  But threat and beauty untangle, too, as a dog captivates a cancer survivor or an actor learns to entice an audience.  In each of these bright, savvy, lucid poems, Lorimer's intelligent allure leaps off the page."

Available from: Variety Crossing Press, P.O. Box 45036, 5864 Yonge Street, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada VM2M 4K3:  varietycrossingpress.wordpress.com      varietycrossing@gmail.com

ISBN 978-0-9812279-6-2


Previous Publication-Connectivism
Unique cultural voices celebrating Canadian identities

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Connectivism, published by Variety Crossing Press, Volume 13, 2011

An anthology of unique cultural voices: Canadian Poems and Essays in English and Korean. Two poems by Lois Lorimer:
  • Cliff Jumper
  • Ocean Freighter

Contributors

  • Ashok Bhargava
  • Dionne Brand
  • Ian Burgham
  • George Elliott Clarke
  • Catherine Graham
  • Edward Hagerman
  • Budd L. Hall
  • Dae-Tong Huh
  • Myung In Kim
  • Nham Cho Kim
  • Choong Mo Jeung
  • Gil-Won Lee
  • Lois Lorimer
  • Irina Moga
  • Hyo Chi Moon
  • Al Moritz
  • Rosemary Sulllivan
  • Priscila Uppal

The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poetry About Facing Cancer

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___The Bright Well, published by Leaf Press, 2011.

Toronto Launch: Tuesday November 29th, 2011
Pauper's Pub, Bathurst and Bloor, Toronto
8:00 p.m. Hosted by  Art Bar Poetry Reading Series
Edited by: Fiona Tinwei Lam
www.leafpress.ca

Join Lois and other contributors to this uplifting and insightful poetry anthology featuring contemporary Canadian poems about facing cancer.
The book is a 68 page compilation of 33 new poems from contemporary Canadian poets. Their theme is surviving cancer. The poems are arranged under 4 headings: Diagnosis, Going Under: Surgery, Treatment, The Other Side.
Contributors
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  • Lorna Crozier
  • Susan Downie
  • Glen Downie
  • Sandra Dunn
  • Marianne Bluger
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  • Michael Harris
  • Maureen Hynes
  • Luciano Iacobelli
  • Lois Lorimer
  • Susan Elmslie
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  • Elise Partridge
  • Miranda Pearson
  • Rachel Rose
  • Mari-Lou Rowley
  • Joanne Page
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  • Richard Sommer
  • Betsy Struthers
  • Betsy Warland
  • Sue Wheeler
  • Anne Simpson
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