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YYC POP: Portraits of People

Sheri-D Wilson’s new book and online exhibition YYC POP: Portraits of People is her legacy project as Calgary’s most recent Poet Laureate emeritus. The concept is at once simple and complex: Calgarians (current and former) write word portraits of fellow Calgarians without using their names.

A call for submissions yielded 200 works, of which 77 poems and works of creative prose were chosen by a jury. Each work includes a literal portrait of its author by artist Kelly Sutherland. The book includes notable figures like Jann Arden, Mayor Naheed Nenshi, each of Calgary’s Poet Laureate and others, as well as a few first-time authors.

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