David C. Brydges is a cultural entrepreneur and community builder. He is the artistic director of the Spring Pulse Poetry Festival in Northern Ontario and the administrator of the oldest non-governmental poetry contest in Canada. (Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 1970). His memberships include Stroll of Poets, the Edmonton Poetry Festival, Parkland Poets, the Ontario Poetry Society, Haiku Canada, Federation of Writers (Scotland) and the League of Canadian Poets. In 2021, he was appointed the first “Poet Emissary” for the Ontario Poetry Society.

 

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