A Wolf Rages Down the Little Jocko

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DENIS STOKES BIO

Denis was born in Toronto and grew up in Scarborough, ONTARIO He was educated at St. Mike’s, U. of T., F.E.U.T. and Vermont College (MFA).

He is the author of the chapbooks Scarborough Poems (Wordwrights Canada), Dublin in the Sunlight; With Adam, Gathering; What the Street Knows and Peace Comes Dropping Slow (all with Albernum Press), plus the books Tunnel Jumping (Scarlet Leaf Press), The Blackstock Children(Scarlet Leaf) and A Wolf Rages Down the Little Jocko (in final preparations in a search for a home.)

His work has appeared in such journals as Descant, Queen’s Quarterly, Quarry, CVII, Arc and various anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and Ireland. He was the winner of the Northern Ontario Writers Award in Poetry (1995, Nipissing University). His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award.

Denis has lived and taught in the GTA, northern B.C., northern Q.C. and northern Ontario, often involving students from First Nations. He has been teaching Fac. Ed. courses and Writing courses at Nipissing University. His interests include fastball and other sports (ardent fan for teams in T.O.), canoeing and hiking, the theatre and activist concerns. He organizes and hosts the Conspiracy of 3 Reading Series in North Bay, ON, one of the longest running series in Ontario.

A dual citizen of Canada and Ireland, he is married to a very patient woman who has blessed him with four wonderfully grown up kids.

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What people are saying about Denis Stokes

“A man crafting poetry, a man continuously being born and reborn from a continuum of verse that elopes him like a watery womb.”

~ Rustin Larson, Author of ‘Russian Lullaby for Brother Donkey’.

"Generous, gracious, patient, warm, vividly descriptive verse, poised and at ease in his singing lines, without nullity or bitterness."

~ B.W. Powe, Author of ‘Where Seas and Fables Meet’; ‘The Charge in the Global Membrane’; ‘Ladders Made of Water’; and ‘Mysteria'.

"The mirror talks back like the jester to the king. The words create images that taste, touch and give you wings to fly over the ocean."

~ Csilla Toldy, Author of ‘Vertical Montage’ and ‘Bed Table.

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