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  FREDERICTON -- A committee at Fredericton City Hall has come up with new terms for what's expected from the city's poet laureate. The role has been in question for some time after some councillors felt poems read by the former poet laureate on such issues as the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion rights were too political. Jenna Lyn Albert's two-year term as poet laureate ended in January, and a replacement is expected to be chosen in the coming months. Henri Mallet, chair of the livable communities committee, says while Albert's poems generated some reaction, he didn't have a ...

Kevin Bissett Fredericton City Hall is shown on Friday February 5, 2021. A committee at Fredericton City Hall has come up with new terms for what's expected from the city's poet laureate. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray February 26, 2021 - 11:53 AM FREDERICTON - A committee at Fredericton City Hall has come up with new terms for what's expected from the city's poet laureate. The role has been in question for some time after some councillors felt poems read by the former poet laureate on such issues as the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion rights wer...

Role of Fredericton's poet laureate still undecided After a lengthy discussion council defeated a motion 6-5 that would have seen the role changed slightly, allowing the poet to not read at every council meeting and requiring four to six original poems.  Social Sharing