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Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.〔("Poets in Profile: Maureen Hynes" ). ''Open Book Toronto'', April 4, 2011.〕 Hynes’s debut collection of poetry, ''Rough Skin'' (Wolsak and Wynn), won the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian in 1996. Her second collection, ''Harm’s Way'', was published by Brick Books in 2001, and her third, ''Marrow, Willow'', arrived in April 2011 from Pedlar Press in Toronto. She is also a winner of the Petra Kenney Poetry Prize (London, England). Her poems have been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards.〔 Her fiction and poetry have appeared in over twenty anthologies. Hynes's poem "The Last Cigarette" was chosen as one of 50 poems for ''Best Canadian Poetry in English'' (2010, edited by Lorna Crozier), and her poem "The Poison Colour" was longlisted for the same collection in 2011, edited by Priscila Uppal. Her work has appeared in notable Canadian literary journals including ''The Malahat,'' ''The Fiddlehead,'' ''Arc,'' ''The Literary Review of Canada,'' ''Descant,'' ''Contemporary Verse 2,'' ''Prairie Fire,'' ''The Antigonish Review'' and ''Queen's Quarterly.'' She has edited and co-edited several collections of poetry and is poetry editor for ''Our Times'', Canada's national labour magazine.〔 Hynes, an out lesbian,〔 served on the jury for the 2008 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Zoe Whittall as that year's winner. She has also served on juries for the League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Prize, the Bannister Poetry Award, Canadian University Press Student Journalism Awards and the Dan Sullivan Poetry Award. Hynes was a member of the Toronto Arts Council's Literary Committee from 2008-2011. In addition to her poetry collections, Hynes published ''Letters from China'' (Women's Press, 1981) about her experiences as a teacher trainer in China just after the end of the Cultural Revolution. She taught ESL and published ESL textbooks, coordinated the School of Labour at George Brown College in Toronto, and was the College's Multicultural/Anti-Racism Coordinator.〔("Queerness shines through" ). ''Xtra!'', September 1, 2011.〕 She has also been an active member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, a board member of Mayworks, Toronto's annual Festival of Working People and the Arts, and of the Centre for Study of Education and Work (CSEW) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ==Works== *''Letters from China,'' Women's Press, Toronto, Ont. 1981 (ISBN 0-88961-071-1) *''Rough Skin,'' Wolsak and Wynn, Toronto, Ont. 1995 (ISBN 978-0-919897-45-8) *''we make the air: Poems by Lina Chartrand,'' co-edited with Ingrid MacDonald, TLC Press, Toronto, Ont. 1999 (ISBN 978-0-9684557-0-8) *''Harm's Way,'' Brick Books, London, Ont. 2001 (ISBN 978-1-897141-39-7) *''Marrow, Willow,'' Pedlar Press, Toronto, Ont. 2011 (ISBN 978-1-897141-39-7) *''Cry Uncle,'' Aeolus Books, Toronto, Ont. 2013. (ISBN 978-0-9878154-7-7), co-edited with Allan Briesmaster and Sue Chenette. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen Hynes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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