POET LAUREATE PRESSERS
NEWS OUTLETS
George Elliot Clarke, “Anecdotes about Luciano Iacobelli,” ACCENTi, The Magazine with an Italian Accent, November 22, 2022. [website] | [pdf]
Deborah Dundas, “Toronto Poet Laureate A.F. Moritz Finds a Place to Celebrate Local Writer and Hold the Book Launches They Almost Lost,” The Star, March 28, 2022 [website] | [pdf]
Kathy Flaxman, “Dead Poets Come Alive at the Art Bar Poetry Series’ Event at Clinton’s,” The Star, February 20, 2022 [website] | [pdf]
Michael Enright, “Books for Solace, Perspective, and Connection during Self-Isolation,” CBC Radio, March 23, 2020. [website] | [pdf]
Michael Enright, “Poet A.F. Moritz on the Under-appreciation of Sparrows, Poetry’s Uselessness, and More,” CBC Radio, December 19, 2019. [website] | [pdf]
Deborah Dundas, “Thoughts in Time of Plague” and “Poetry of a Pandemic: Toronto’s Poet Laureate Explains How He Approached Writing About Covid-19 Crisis,” The Star, April 1, 2020. [website] | [pdf]
Brendan Kennedy, “Redpath Sugar asked Toronto’s Poet Laureate to write a poem for its anniversary, but he refused to sugar-coat it,” The Star, May 23, 2019. [website] | [pdf]
Steven W. Beattie, “A.F. Moritz on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and ‘the glory and the tragedy of being human,'” Quill & Quire, April 25, 2019. [website] | [pdf]
A.F. Moritz, “Read Toronto Poet Laureate Al Moritz’s Poem Commemorating Van Attack Tragedy,” The Star, April 23, 2019. [website] | [pdf]
City of Toronto: Press Release: Poet Laureate [pdf]
City of Toronto: The Role of Toronto’s Poet Laureate [website] [pdf]
Edward Keenan, “Toronto’s new poet laureate A. F. Moritz gets what life is like here,” The Star, March 6, 2019 [website] | [pdf]
Steven W. Beattie, “A. F. Moritz Named Toronto’s Sixth Poet Laureate,” Quill and Quire, March 6, 2019 [website] | [pdf]
Johshua Freeman, “Al Moritz Named Next Poet Laureate,” CP24 dot com, March 6, 2019 [website] | [pdf]
David Rider, “New Poet Laureate, A. F. Moritz, calls Toronto an ‘outstanding little city-state,” The Star, March 6, 2019 [website] | [pdf]
RADIO
CBC THE SUNDAY EDITION with Michael Enright
Books for Solace, Perspective, and Connection During Self-Isolation
March 22, 2020
CBC THE SUNDAY EDITION with Michael Enright
At the Outset of Winter, a Poet for All Seasons
December 19, 2019
CBC AS IT HAPPENS with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas
“The Current of the Sugar” a segment from the “Northern Plights” Episode
May 24, 2019
CBC METRO MORNING
with Matt Galloway
Introducing Toronto’s New Poet Laureate
March 8, 2019
Poetry Theory and Practice
Interviews in Print
Sachi Nag, “Al Moritz,” Craft Interview, The Artisanal Writer, December 1, 2021. [website] | [pdf]
Lauren Peat, “Interview – A.F. Moritz,” Volume Poetry IV, February 15, 2021. [website] | [pdf]
Steven W. Beattie, “A.F. Moritz on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and ‘the glory and the tragedy of being human,'” Quill & Quire, April 25, 2019. [website] | [pdf]
James Lindsay, “A Poem Discloses Something: An Interview with A. F. Moritz,” Open Book. May 25, 2018 [website] | [pdf]
Evan Jones. “A. F. Moritz Interviewed by Evan Jones.” CNQ Online. January 13, 2017 [webstite] | [pdf]
James Wood, Transcript of the full interview behind the Prism article, directly below. Sequence: An Extended Interview [webpage] | [pdf]
James Wood, “‘In poetry, what is learned is of the blood,’ An interview with award-winning poet A.F. Moritz,” PRISM Online. April 11, 2016 [website] | [pdf]
Grace O’Connell, “Poetry Month Special: Talking with Anansi Poets A. F. Moritz, Erin Mourê, and Karen Solie. Open Book Toronto Online, April 15, 2015. [website link has expired] | [pdf]
CBC Canada Writes, “CBC Magic 8: A. F. Moritz on the ‘Illiterature’ of Poetry,” CBC Books Online, April 3, 2015 [website link has expired] | [pdf]
Samantha Ainsworth, “Connectivity of Humanity Through Language: Samantha Ainsworth in Conversation with A. F. Moritz,” Malahat Review Online, 2014 [website] | [pdf]
Sue Sinclair, “Moritz on Beauty,” Lemonhound. April 9, 2013 [website] | [pdf]
Damian Rogers, “A. F. Moritz, Bio and Micro-Interview,” Poetry In Voice [website] | [pdf]
Marc Vincenz. “Not Just Contemplating a Rock. An Interview with A. F. Moritz,” Open Letters Monthly. October 1, 2009 [website] | [pdf]
