Richard Lemm

Richard Lemm was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1946. He immigrated to Canada in 1967, and became a Canadian citizen in 1973. He studied at San Francisco State University and Simon Fraser University, and has an M.A. in English from Queen's University and a Ph.D. in English and Canadian Literature from Dalhousie University. From 1977 to 1987 he was part of the writing faculty at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and has been writerinresidence and poetry instructor for various community colleges, regional libraries, public school districts, and summer writing programmes. He was president of the League of Canadian Poets from 1986 to 1988, and active in the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and the Prince Edward Island Writers' Guild. Since 1983 he has lived on Prince Edward Island, where he is Associate Professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Awards
CBC Radio Literary Competition, third prize, poetry, 1983, 1992.
Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, poetry, 1991.
The National Poetry Contest, third prize, 1998.

Selected Publications
Dancing in Asylum. (Pottersfield Press, 1982).
A Difficult Faith. (Pottersfield Press, 1985).
Prelude to the Bacchanal. (Ragweed Press, 1990).
Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger. (Carleton University Press, 1999).

Selected Anthologies
Reconcilable Differences: The Changing Face of Poetry by Canadian Men. (Bayeux Arts, 1994)
Border Lines: Contemporary Poems in English. (Copp Clark, 1995).
Poetic Voices of the Maritimes. (Lancelot Press, 1996).

Books in Print
Lemm, Richard
A Difficult Faith. Pottersfield Press, 1985. $7.95 ISBN: 0-919001-20-3.
Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger. Carleton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-88629-340-5.
Prelude to the Bacchanal. Ragweed Press, 1990. $9.95 ISBN: 0-921556-12-8.