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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:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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/.
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/.
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
Variety Crossing Press
presents Lois Lorimer's book of poetry
"Stripmall Subversive".
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presents Lois Lorimer's book of poetry
"Stripmall Subversive".
Buy Now from Amazon
Lois Lorimer's poetry
is featured in the
Toronto Poetry Map:
April 15, 2015
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
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
Biography of Lois Lorimer
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 .
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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
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
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
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:
An anthology of unique cultural voices: Canadian Poems and Essays in English and Korean. Two poems by Lois Lorimer:
- Cliff Jumper
- Ocean Freighter
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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. |
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