René Lapierre

René Lapierre (born 1953) is a Québécois writer and teacher. Mainly poet and essayist, he has published over the last 30 years more than twenty books, among which are several essays on writing and theories of creation, social criticism and spectacularization Culture1 . He also published in magazines, in collective works or in social networks a lot of commitment texts, particularly in the context of 2012 Quebec student protests.

Since 1981, he teaches literature (literary creation, theory of forms, ethics, aesthetics and theories of creation) in Literary Studies Department at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he had the opportunity to work with a very many prominent poets of Quebec.