Listowel youth wins poetry award

April 30, 2026 @ 9:01 amArts & Entertainment, Listowel Banner, Local News, Rural

Youth Poet Laureate stands behind podium in front of audience. Poet Laureate stands off to the side, looking on.
Stratford Youth Poet Laureate Quinn Mayer addresses the audience at the Every Voice Poetry Contest award ceremony at Stratford City Hall, April 23. Left, Poet Laureate David Stones. (Rachel Hammermueller)

STRATFORD – In a balconied, sage-walled auditorium, on one of the warmest evenings so far this spring in Perth County, art is celebrated at the historic city hall in Stratford.  A poet laureate’s job in part, as David Stones explained to Midwestern Newspapers last month, is to build out the community’s poetry program. Stones, the…

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