Actor/composer Mike Ross started setting the poetry of Dennis Lee to music without ever expecting to meet one of Canada's best-known authors and social thinkers. Full Article at Toronto Star

Dennis Lee Forrester, 62, of Elizabethtown, Ky. , passed away Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. Full Article at Daily Chronicle

Artists in Toronto don't always want to take risks and create shows about our own country, or our own cities. It's easier to retell old American or European stories, again and again, that have already been successful somewhere else. Full Article at blogTO

We open the real posts today with a guest piece, more an Op-Ed, really, from poet and professor Adam Sol on a controversy around Toronto’s Poet Laureate. Full Article at Bookninja

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced that the company's production of Civil Elegies will run December 3 - 24, 2009, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Full Article at Broadway World

TAZEWELL, Va. — A Tazewell County man charged with fatally shooting his neighbor and wounding the man’s wife was sentenced Monday to 56 years in prison. Full Article at Bluefield Daily Telegraph