(To read about the unveiling, visit Live With Culture: http://www.livewithculture.ca/ )
On December 6, 2010, the Cedarbrae Library re-opened and launched of the first permanent installation of the Poet Laureate's Legacy Initiative Project, Poetry is Public is Poetry.
Dionne Brand was present to introduce Rosemary Sullivan's poetry in the pavement.
(from the poem Exile (from Sullivan's 1991 collection Blue Panic)
This inaugural Poetry is Public is Poetry installation is located near the main entrance of the Cedarbrae Library; Rosemary Sullivan's words are permanently mounted in bronze lettering and embedded into the walkway. This collaborative endeavour involves the City of Toronto's Cultural Services and Transportation Services, working in close co-operation with the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Public Library Foundation.
For more information about this installation and the Legacy Project, please visit: http://www.poetryispublic.ca
We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.