Di Brandt (born 1952) is an award-winning Canadian poet and literary critic. Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Dionne Brand. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women. ...

Biography

Di Brandt was born Diana Ruth Janzen in Winkler, Manitoba. She was raised in Reinland a conservative, separatist Mennonite village in Southern Manitoba. Di is a twin, she and her fraternal twin sister are the middle children, born between an older brother and a younger sister. Di left home at the age of 17 and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to attend college. She married at the age of 19. She received a BA from the University of Manitoba, and went on to a Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto and a PhD in English literature at the University of Manitoba. She gave birth to her first child, Lisa Margaret Brandt at the age of 23. Four years later, in 1979, she had a second child, Mary Alison Brandt. She and her husband divorced in 1989. She taught english and creative writing at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario for 7 years. She then went on to teach at Brandon University where she currently holds the position of Canada Research Chair. City motto: Where People Make The Difference Location in the province of Manitoba Region Pembina Valley Mayor Neil Schmidt Area  - Land  - Water 17. ... The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after and influenced by the teachings and tradition of Menno Simons (1496-1561). ... Motto: Template:Unhide = Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Location City Information Established: 1738 (Fort Rouge), 1873 (City of Winnipeg) Area: 465. ... The University of Manitoba is the largest university of the province of Manitoba, most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ... The University of Windsor is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational, public comprehensive university located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. ... Brandon University is a Canadian university located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba with an enrolment of 3383 (2005) full-time and part-time students. ...

Her work

Di Brandt has published five collections of poetry:

• Now You Care (Toronto: Coach House, 2003),
• Jerusalem, beloved (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1995),
• mother, not mother (Toronto: Mercury, 1992),
• Agnes in the sky (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1990), and
• questions i asked my mother (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1987).

She has also published a critical study of contemporary Canadian women's texts,

• Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1993), and a collection of creative essays on cross-cultural poetics,
• Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries (Toronto: Mercury, 1996). She also recently released Awakenings, a collaborative poetry/music CD with Dorothy Livesay (posthumously), Carol Ann Weaver, and Rebecca Campbell (2003).

She has received the Canadian Authors' Association National Poetry Award, the McNally Robinson Award for Manitoba Book of the Year, and the Gerald Lampert Award, and has been twice shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, as well as the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Di Brandt is a former poetry editor of Prairie Fire Magazine and Contemporary Verse 2. Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC , OBC , M.Ed , D.Litt , FRSC (October 12, 1909 - December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet. ... McNally Robinson Booksellers is a small chain of Canadian independent bookstores. ... The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets. ...

Her poetry has been set to music, and adapted for theatre, CD, film, video, radio, television, multimedia performance, and dance. She is currently writing "Berlin Notes," based on a six month sabbatical visit to that city (the first chapter was a cover feature in Prairie Fire Fall 2003), and co-editing two volumes of proceedings from the conference/festival, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry (University of Windsor, 2001), with Barbara Godard, of York University. She is also co-producing Planet Earth, a musical CD featuring settings of Canadian women's poetry by well known composers like Violet Archer, Barbara Pentland, Chester Duncan, Jana Skarecky, Paul McIntyre, and others (performed, commissioned for, and premiered at the Wider Boundaries conference/festival), together with Barbara Godard, Jana Skarecky, and Brenda Muller. Her poetry suite, Sweet Sweet Blood will be premiered at the Sounding in the Land music conference at the University of Waterloo in May 2004. The University of Windsor is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational, public comprehensive university located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. ... York University, located in Toronto, Ontario, is Canadas third-largest university. ... The University of Waterloo, also known as UW, UWaterloo, or simply, Waterloo is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ...

Selected publications

• Now You Care. Toronto, Coach House Books, 2004.
• Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries. Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1996.
• Jerusalem, beloved. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1995. *Mother, not mother. Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1992.
• Agnes in the sky. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1990.
• questions i asked my mother. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1987.

Awards

• Shortlisted, Griffin Poetry Prize, for Now You Care, 2004.
• Shortlisted, Pat Lowther Award for Poetry for Now You Care, 2004.
• Shortlisted, Trillium Prize for Best Book for Now You Care, 2004.
• Canadian Authors' Association National Poetry Award, for Jerusalem, beloved, 1995.
• Shortlisted, Governor General's Award, for Jerusalem, beloved, 1995.
• Silver National Magazine Award for he sound the wind makes, New Quarterly, 1995.
• McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award, for Agnes in the sky, 1990.
• Shortlisted, Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize, for questions i asked my mother, 1988.
• Gerald Lampert Award, for questions i asked my mother, 1987.
• Governor General's Award, for poetry, for questions i asked my mother, 1987.

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External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip

link Mennonite Poets