Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author â John Barton May 12, 2021 For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems, Polari, Seminal: The Anthology of Canadaâs Gay-Male Poets, We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, and The Essential Douglas LePan, which won a 2020 eLit Award. In 2020, he published Lost Family: A Memoir (a book of sonnets) with Signal Editions and edited The Essential Derk Wynand for The Porcupineâs Quill. He lives in Victoria, BC, where he is the cityâs first queer poet laureate. His poem âWhat We Live Forâ can be read on our website at https://canlit.ca/article/what-we-live-for/.