“Here I stand inside a Catholic School, a former follower of faith, a Poet who once considered being a Preacher. Inside of the church, was the only place that I ever even heard that word. It was a word reserved for The Saved, The Forgiven, The Chosen, The Blessed That Be - not for me - until now. Yes.”

On my ride to teach Poetry yesterday, I cried in my cab. 

Every person, place, and thing – has a history, is here in the present – and is looking towards a hopefully big and bright future.

Last year, actually, 11 months ago, The City of Calgary and the Calgary Downtown Association made contact with Da Lyrical PitBull and PitBull Poetry In The Park was born.

Wakefield Brewster aka Da Lyrical Pitbull writes his first statement as Calgary’s 6th Poet Laureate

It all begins with an idea.