In 2001, Dennis Lee was made Toronto's first Poet Laureate.
In 2004, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco became Toronto's second Poet Laureate.
In 2009, Dionne Brand became Toronto's third Poet Laureate.
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“Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)