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Sheri-D Wilson, is a Canadian poet, educator, speaker, producer and activist.In 2015 Sheri-D was awarded with The City of Calgary Arts Award, for her contributions as an artist and community activist.

Her most recent - 9th - poetry collection, "OPEN LETTER: Woman Against Violence Against Women," tackles difficult terrain. Conceived from improvisation, this collage of poems culminates in a flood poem as the desecration of the earth is compared to the treatment of women. Throughout the work a drumbeat, a heartbeat, a healing chant pervades. "OPEN LETTER," was nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Award and the ReLit Award.

Her last collection, "Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe," is the first poetry book to use QR codes that connect to video, audio, and interactive talk-back. Her collection, "Re:Zoom" , won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit Award.

In 2011 she edited The Spoken Word Workbook: Inspiration from Poets who Teach , an educational tool for teaching and writing Spoken Word.

She has 2 Spoken Word CDs , and 4 award-winning VideoPoems including: Airplane Paula , Spinsters Hanging in Trees , all produced for BravoFACT.

In 2012 she was featured in Chatelaine Magazine, in a story about the creative mind. A regular on CBC, in 2013

she was interviewed by Canadian icon Sheilah Rogers. In 2011 she was honored to be presented by The National

Slam of Canada in “Legends of Spoken Word.” In 2009 CBC called her one of the Top 10 Poets in Canada. In 2003 she won the USA Heavyweight title for poetry, and in 2006 The National Slam of Canada presented her with the Poet of Honour Award. Of the beat tradition, in 1989 Sheri-D studied at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado.

Her influences include Guillaume Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, and Allen Ginsberg. Wikipedia  

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Famous Sheri-D Wilson Quotes

“Did you know orchids
employ trickery to attract insects?
They spray a deceptive scent
resembling insect pheromones.
Bad flower! Bad flower!
Liar! Liar! Petals on fire!”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Heart"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“Trigger Warning!
Rape is a rape is a rape.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Exhibit G - Hidden in Plain Sight"
Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women (2014)

“The world is my oyster
and now I’ll take a shower of stars.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Aphrodite's Aphrodisiac"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“It was as though the lifeline on her palm
had fallen between the cracks
of the impossible and the arbitrary.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"In Search of a Metaphysical Rock Star"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“I scrawled Song Birds across the blue
stuck the sticky note to my wall.
Needed to remember
there was a time people cut out
the tongues of Song Birds
to eat them as delicacies.
That afternoon I went outside
and thousands of Song Birds
filled the Rosscarrock sky.
I cried a song of remorse.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Autopsy of a Turvy World"
Autopsy of a Turvy World (2008)

“There is an afterlife to love
and there is love in the afterlife.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Heart"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

Sheri-D Wilson Quotes

“I would crush a priceless pearl
and drink it,
to stay in this moment
for all time.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Gypsy Madonna from Florence on the Opening Night of Lorca"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“Inverted heart,
becomes the testicles
of a man.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Heart"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“I want to love the daylights out of you.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Re:Zoom"
Re:Zoom (2005)

“How do I love thee?
Let me count the days.
If there are 50 ways to leave your lover
then there are 50 ways to be left.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"Heart"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

“Relationships are good
for at least two poems—
One at the beginning
and one at the end.”

Sheri-D Wilson

"On Being a Poet"
Swerve (1993)

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