In brief

Andrée Lacelle: the City of Ottawa’s poet laureate

In 2017, Andrée Lacelle becomes the first Francophone poet laureate of the City of Ottawa! In this position, she has the mandate of promoting poetry in the national capital over the next two years. The writer, who hails from Hawkesbury but has long been a resident of Ottawa, shares her duties with the Anglophone poet laureate, Jammal Jackson Rogers, also known as JustJamaal The Poet. It is the first time the City of Ottawa has added a Francophone component to this program.

Close-up colour photograph of an older woman with glasses and medium-length salt-and-pepper hair. She wears a purple scarf in the outdoor autumn setting. She smiles at the camera.

Andrée Lacelle, first Franco-Ontarian writer to receive the Prix Trillium in 1995 for her collection of poems Tant de vie s’égare. Photo: Nancy Vickers, 2010.

Andrée Lacelle collection, Andrée Lacelle