Name Ted Plantos Died 2001 | Role Poet | |
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Ted Plantos (1943–2001) was a Canadian poet, writer, editor and promoter of Canadian literature.
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Ted ran the Toronto Public Library's reading series from 1970–1977. He led the People's Poetry Workshops on a weekly basis for the Toronto library system at The House On Gerard during the same time period. He co-founded and ran Old Nun Publications from 1972–1975. Old Nun magazine came out of this endeavour. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association in January 1985. He was known as "The Poet of Parliament Street".
Ted was responsible for beginning the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Newsletter and the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award, after his Canada-wide literary magazine, Cross Canada Writer's Quarterly was sold. He owned and ran CCWQ from 1978 - 1991 when it was purchased by Beverley Daurio and the name was changed to Paragraph magazine.