May
26
2009
Rapper Becomes City’s Poet Laureate
By the time you read this, one of Canada’s finest lyricists Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) will have assumed his place as the new Poet laureate of Edmonton. To put it in perspective, his predecessor is a 74 year old professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Alberta who has 29 published books, including 17 collections of poetry, under his belt. Read the rest of this entry »

