Literary related activities

AFM was head of Library Committee. Includes pamphlets, brochures, correspondence, etc.

1 audio cassette

Includes copy of Leif Vaage's manuscript for Schooled in Salt.

1 audio cassette

Includes copies of articles and poems, clippings, etc.

Includes work by Al Moritz. Correspondence, a copy of his poem, and printer's proof.   

Photographs col., 2004
P1 A.F.M. with a large group of others posing on an outdoor stand
P2 A.F.M. at Banff 2004 reading for instructors and poetry attendees

Correspondence.

1 DVD.  A documentary film by Zoran Maslic featuring poet Goran Simic. Also includes promotional poster.

Documents signed for Vallum magazine.   

Correspondence from Chris Terrence and DVD of A.F. Moritz while he was visiting poet UC Fresno in early Summer 2000 [Description provided by A.F. Moritz].

1 DVD.  The DVD is available via Resource Space.  Please contact staff to request access.

Moritz had readings on two days of the conference.   See 2016.08 1-1 for a copy of AFM's application to the conference.

"Bee in Aster" from Walrus set to music by Doug Peterman, with musical arrangement.  Includes personal note from Peterman to AFM regarding use of poem in Stratford reading and posters announcing musical event.

Certificate stating: The League of Canadian Poets presents The 2013 Raymond Souster Award for the Best Book of Poetry by a League of Canadian Poets Member - A.F. Moritz for The New Measures (House of Anansi Press)  

League of Canadian Poets 47th Poetry Festival and Conference.  Includes copies of lecture by A.F. Moritz : "A Garden is Not a Place : Poetry and Beauty", correspondence and conference information. See 2016.08 1-4 for copies of draft typescript of essay for the lecture. 

Books by George Fetherling (often writing as Doug Fetherling) gone through by AFM when editing and collecting Fetherling's 2012 Collected Plans Deranged By Time.

Translation of Dante's La Vita Nuova by Mark Musa. Contains notes by AFM throughout.   

One of AFM's many copies William Blake.  This Norton Critical Edition shows its wear and has many notes by AFM [Description provided by AFM].  

Notes by AFM throughout a copy of Rudy Weibe's The Scorched Wood People.

Copy of Absences - New Poetry by James Tate with AFM's notes throughout.   

AFM's notes and underlined passages in a copy of Selected works by George Herbert.   

AFM's notes and underlined passages in John Ashbery's Houseboat Days.  

Notes by AFM in copies of Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Thoreau's Walden.   

One of AFM's many copies of Tennyson. This one with the most extensive of his marginalia [description provided by AFM].  

Signed copies of books and poems purchased from fellow participants of the IX Festival Internacional de Poesia de Granada, Nicaragua.  

For application to participate in the X Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada, Nicaragua. Includes travel itinerary. See 2015.08 6-1 for related material.

Held in Costa Rica.   

Includes notes, correspondence and a typescript of poems.   

Draft typescript. Article appeared in the National Post on November 26, 2010.  Event is a poetry festival held in Mexico. 

Includes notes on Canadian literature collection in libraries, lists of AFM publications, press releases for Conflicting Desire, and order forms for AFM publications.

Includes handwritten notes on papers, schedules, conference materials.   

Includes notes, conference material, etc.   

Early version of the interview by James Wood ; a short version was published in Prism International.  See 1-11

Consists of notes and annual report.   

Consists of card notices for publication by Someone Editions (3 copies) and a listing of prints available.   

Includes programme, pamphlet and seating plan.  AFM was given an award for poetry.    

Consists of financial documents.   

Includes brochures, invitations, notices, etc.   

Includes souvenirs, notes, conference material and photographs.    

Typed notes on Le bluff technologique.   

Typescript.   

Typed notes for talk.   

Typed questions and responses.  Interview was to appear in Malahat - online version of magazine starting 2 June 2014.

Two typed copies of interview question and answers.  

Topic is around Sequence.  

Typescripts of revised drafts, final and full versions of interview of AFM by James W. Wood for for PRISM and Poetry.  Questions related to Sequence. See 15-9

Consists of AFM's application and acceptance into the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). Includes membership agreement.   

Includes conference material. AFM was a chair at the conference.  

Held at Wheaton College, 8-10 July, 2012. Includes handwritten notes, schedules, materials, etc.   

Includes notes, correspondence, etc.   

Gifts from the publisher Exile. Includes a copy of Hoggwash by Barry Callaghan and two catalogues of drawings by Claire Wiessman Wilks 

Copy of The Cambridge Edition of the Poets - Browning. ed. Horace E. Scudder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.   

Notes, correspondence and handwritten lecture materials for the Masters Class session, led by AFM at the League of Canadian Poets AGM and Conference. June 2017.

Consists of agendas, reports, minutes and handwritten notes taken by AFM during lectures other than his Masters Class session. Some material was intended to be incorporated into the Masters Class on the fly.

Material related to the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, of which AFM was a judge. Includes correspondence and entry submission forms.

Items from Rafi Aaron's In the Days of the Cotton Wind and the Sparrow book launch. Includes a copy of the book which was edited by AFM, a copy of Exile: The Literary Quarterly, Vol. 40 No. 4, and the Exile Editions catalogue.

Review of Brian Campbell's Shimmer Report for inclusion in Vallum magazine, pre-publication. Also includes a copy of the magazine's contributor contract, correspondence with Vallum editors and Brian Campbell, and corrections and notes. See Accession 2017.07 Box 2-7 for a copy of the published magazine.

Invitations to various literary and literary-related events attended by AFM, including the 2016 Writers' Trust Award, Anansi's Poetry Bash 2017, the 2017 Griffin Prize Poetry Awards, a memorial service for editor/publisher Ellen Seligman, and Eli Sol's bar mitzvah (the son of poet Adam Sol).

Invitation to Knife Fork Book event with handwritten notes regarding the event and attendees.

Contract for "Evolution" for Vallum 14.1. See Accession 2017.07 Box 2-7 and 2-17 for related material.

Invitation and program for The Artis magazine event with special feature artist Eva Kolacz.

Program from The Art Bar Poetry Series event, at which AFM presented. October 2016.

Includes: an invitation; the Fall 2016 issue of Update, Vol 23, Issue 3, with the event listed on page 6; a small press chapbook by Ruth Roach Pierson, Untraceable Thought, signed to AFM; and AFM's notes on the evening launch, which included an Ekphrastic reading series in which he was included as a reader.

Frozen Charlotte, Catherine Heard's sculpture for The Magic Vending Machine of Fate, a multi-disciplinary project for Canadian artists. Sculpture consists of 14 Frozen Charlotte china dolls and features poems by Gary Barwin, Gregory Betts, Kathleen McCracken and AFM. 3 dolls are held inside plastic balls.

Papers pertaining to AFM's role as a planner of the 2018 International Jacques Ellul Conference in Vancouver, including correspondence, scheduling, budgeting and session planning.

Handwritten notes from the 2018 Ellul Conference, typescript of Ellul paper delivered, printed materials from the conference and trip itinerary.

Notes and poems related to AFM's participation in the Canadian Writers Summit from June 15-17. Participation in panels on the UofT Creative Writing MA and the Literary Translators Association.

Notes, invitations, correspondence, etc. for AFM's literary events from the first half of 2018.

Material related to a one-on-one interview at the Toronto Reference Library conducted by John Miller on October 5, 2017.

DVD recording of the Toronto Reference Library interview. 2 DVDs.

AFM's personal script and poem "The Clock" to read at the Poetry Event as well as correspondence regarding the reading with organizers and other poets on October 29, 2017.

Reading and talk given to Bengali Literary Resource Centre, Albert Campbell Library, in Scarborough on August 4, 2018.

Notes, paperwork, event materials and correspondence for the Eden Mills Literary Festival on September 9, 2018.

New poetry written by hand, several drafts and typed version with last-minute revisions. Written exclusively for a presentation of AFM's work and the poetry that inspires him at the Hospital for Sick Children in October 2019 as part of his role as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Also includes notes for the presentation and the texts of all works read at the event.

Two previously published poems to be read as part of an interview with Michael Enright for CBC Radio Sunday Edition. Poems printed and presented to AFM by Enright. The interview was recorded on October 1, 2019.

Correspondence regarding and composition of an essay introducing the work of former student Lara Franklin for ELQ Exile magazine's feature entitled "The Laureate Presents". Also work in selecting her poems for the feature. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

AFM's preparation for The Poet Laureate Presents reading on April 24, 2019. Includes AFM's choice of the three poets to read, introductory remarks for the evening, and correspondence with City of Toronto Staff and event organizers at The Poet Condos. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

Correspondence and prepared manuscript of poems for two events on March 9 and March 14, 2019 for the Scrivener Square Poetry Group. A talk on poetry with readings and a discussion of the poems, including an extended talk on Yeats, and a reading/discussion of AFM's poems.

Typescript poem “By Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church” and words of thanks presented at a meeting of Toronto City Council on AFM’s inauguration as Toronto’s Poet Laureate. Includes handwritten notes and words of thanks.

Correspondence surrounding the announcement of AFM's new role as Toronto's Poet Laureate, including City of Toronto press releases, news outlet questions and AFM's publisher Anansi's email blast.  

A bespoke, hardbound edition of AFM's essay "A Garden is Not a Place: Poetry and Beauty", the Anne Szumigalski Lecture of 2013 delivered to the League of Canadian Poets. Designed and printed by Carleton Wilson of Junction Books as a gift to AFM. This is the one and only edition.

Promotion flyer and correspondence inviting AFM to read at the University of Toronto English/St. Michael's College Canadian Writing Now event as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Includes a handwritten list of poems read at the event.

Victoria University brochure listing professors' publications, including The Sparrow.

Griffin Prize 2019 souvenir handouts.

Outlines and schedules of AFM's work at the Symposium at Chongqing University as visiting poet in November 2018. Includes travel documents and itineraries.

Draft of full keynote address at Chongqing University with last minute alterations made by hand.

Shorter version of keynote address with more changes and typos corrected. Timing of address noted as practiced.

Complete and perfected version of major address for Chongqing University Symposium, "Poetry and Identity".

Materials used by faculty and students during AFM's visit to Chongqing University, including an imperfect text of the keynote "Poetry and Identity". Also includes a copied-out poem of Juan Ramón Jiménez used in one of Professor Liu's classes.

Poster for the inaugural event at Chongqing University which included the keynote address.

Professor HaKing Liu's online writing about "the poetic" and "kung fu" with AFM's notes written in responding to Liu, his students and AFM's own thoughts on the topic.

Notes upon previous essays, handwritten crib-notes on Blake, annotations on "Poetry and Identity" keynote address, and Rilke.

Earliest draft of "Poetry and Identity" keynote, from Cal Tate/Fresno presentation, with penciled-in changes.

Close-to-final versions of poems for students to use during AFM's residency at Chongqing University with translations by Anna Yin.

 Someone Editions fine press broadside of the poem "The Shore" with woodcut. For Nuit Blanche 2009.

Brick Books brochure of their Governor General's Award winning and nominated books, which includes Rest on the Flight into Egypt.

Insomniac Press early notice of the publication of Early Poems.

Program from AFM's appearance as Marley in a Hart House performance of A Christmas Carol with Hart House Chorus. Profile included.

Susana Wald's typescript history of the 1968 Café and Art Centre, Casa de la Luna, in Santiago, Chile which she opened with her partner, AFM's friend and artist and writer Ludwig Zeller. 

An announcement of a presentation and a publicity sheet for Phantoms in the Ark, with Ludwig Zeller.

Two rare colour fine-print programs of Manifestation of Benjamin Péret, from the Péret presentation at A-Space Gallery in Toronto in May 1978, featuring AFM's treatment of Péret's work as well as artwork by Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald.

Three rare folded fine letterpress note-cards in three different colours introducing the Fall 1978 line of hand-composed and letterpress editions from Villeneuve editions, including AFM's Signs and Certainties.

A hand-printed card announcing the publication of The Visitation, printed by Aya Press. Watercolour by Howard Fox.

Beatriz Hausner's "Mornings with My Double".

Luciano Iacobelli's Noctograms, two copies.

Maureen Scott Harris' broadside, "Reflection (Great Egret)" from an edition of 150 printed for National Poetry Month 2019.

Premier's Award for Excellence Finalist certificate.

Loose sheets of notes on literary awards, schedules of literary events and writing goals during completion of The Sparrow.

Miscellaneous literary items including a card from a memorial, a biography used in the reading for the Tree Reading Series in Ottawa, an article regarding a prize for which AFM was on the jury, and a remembrance of poet and friend Sheldon Zitner.

Frog Hollow Press fine press edition broadside of the poem "Cassandra" with hand drawn and coloured illustration, 6 in an edition of 100.

Dreadnaught fine press broadside collection for the 1982 National Book Festival. Includes AFM's translation of Ludwig Zeller's "Memory of Childhood".

James Tate's small press chapbook of poems, Modern Series No. 1, Amnesia People, signed by Tate and dedicated to AFM.

A subscription flyer for Poetry, Chicago, reprinting AFM's poem "Busman's Honeymoon".

AFM's extensive marginalia in Ashbery's Rivers and Mountains towards an essay, now lost, on "The Skaters".

AFM's extensive annotations of Paz's Piedra De Sol and Blanco within the collection Configurations made between 1972 and 1974.

AFM's extensive annotations on Coleridge as well as a draft of a long-lost poem (ca. 1970) on page 159, with a sheet of handwritten notes.

AFM's annotations of David Ferry's edition of Wordsworth for Laurel Editions.

AFM's annotations of Stillinger's edition of Wordsworth from Houghton Mifflin.

AFM's annotations in Ashbery's Some Trees, the Corinth reprint of 1970.

AFM's annotations of Frye's The Great Code, Academic Press Canada, 1981.

AFM's marginalia in Keats's Selected Poems, Signet edition of the 1960's.

AFM's annotation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Signet editon of the 1960's. 

AFM's annotations of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, Signet edition of the 1960's.

AFM's annotations of Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Harvest Books.

AFM's handwritten notes on a program from a Maynard Ferguson concert held at Niles McKinley High School in Niles, Ohio.

Controversia 4, ensayo de análisis politico y social, Aug-Oct 1977, no. 4. A journal from Mexico copy-edited by AFM's friend Gilberto Meza, featuring his essay on poets of Guadalajara.  

A letter from Allan Brown in presentation of his collection Stranger Wood, The Quarry Press, 1982.

Animal Logic, a chapbook presented to AFM by Alexandra Wilder.

A scroll presented to AFM in thanks for his work as a visiting poet and scholar at Chongqing University in China.

T-shirt from the Walk With Excellence with AFM's poem "Walk With Excellence 2019" printed on the front. Original poem composed between April 10th and 23rd, 2019 for the event. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

Handwritten notes and correspondence with David O'Meara and organizers in preparation for AFM's appearance at the Ottawa Writers Festival and Verse Fest. Events were moved online due to COVID-19. Podcast was recorded on October 26 at 3:30pm. Poet Laureate event.

Handwritten notes and correspondence with organizers in preparation for AFM's appearance at Tartan Turban Reading Series Political Poetry Night, moved online due to COVID-19. Poet Laureate event.

Handwritten notes and correspondence with organizers in preparation for AFM's appearance at the Toronto Writers Collective reading for the Toronto International Festival of Authors, moved online due to COVID-19. Includes a copy of The Bridge newspaper with an advertisement for the event and a tie-in article on the back page. Poet Laureate event.

Correspondence and official publication for the Toronto Arts Foundation-sponsored Mayor's Arts Lunch at Home. Publication contains AFM's annotations. Official Poet Laureate event.

Notes toward AFM's recorded talk and reading from As Far As You Know for Thin Air, Winnipeg Writer's Festival, the online version. Poet Laureate event.

Notes, advertisements and screen-grabs of poems to be discussed on Anna Yin's East Meets West translation video/podcast. Poet Laureate event.

First through fourth and final drafts of a poem/rap for the Walk with Excellence event. Official Poet Laureate event.

Script and notes on poems for Poetry in Union, the second annual initiative between Union Station and the League of Canadian Poets. The event took place at Union Station on February 14, 2020. Poet Laureate event.

Original and edited typescript and handwritten notes for AFM's introduction of George Elliott Clarke as the Pelham Edgar Lecturer for Victoria University.

Notes and long and short reading scripts for the City of Toronto memorial for AFM's friend and former Toronto Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio D Cicco. Official Poet Laureate event.

Includes several drafts of "Words are Bridges, the Word is You", AFM's keynote address for the January 2020 meeting of the Toronto Writers Collective, as well as an identification tag, printed poems for the conference, TWC newsletters and the facilitator training manual. Poet Laureate event.

Handwritten notes, drafts, final text, correspondence, seat reservation and event layout for the City of Toronto Christmas Concert. Includes drafts and reading copy - with notes on accentuation - of AFM's poem "The Star and the Animals", written for the event, as well as the introductory presentation given at the event. Official Poet Laureate Event.

AFM's badge of participation attached to the most recent presentation of Bill 6, to create a Poet Laureate of Ontario in memory of Gord Downie. AFM was a proponent of the Bill in his role as Poet Laureate.

Keepsake printed material from the the Mayor's Evening for the Arts event in November 2019, including AFM's notes on seating arrangements. Also includes a printout of the poem "Faith in Hell" from the Toronto Star which was initially considered as a dedicating poem to be read at the event. Official Poet Laureate event.

Handwritten notes and correspondence with Michael Redhill, name badge, guest pass and hand-out regarding AFM's October 2019 appearance at the Arts & Letters Club, "An Evening with Al Moritz and Michael Redhill". Poet Laureate event.

Correspondence, poem and ballads for AFM's talk on the "Story Poem" on October 20, 2019. Includes a t-shirt from the event. Poet Laureate event.

Correspondence, contacts, flyers and a thank-you card related to AFM's appearance at Poetry at the Manor in Windsor, a meeting of the Poets Laureate, on October 9, 2019. Official Poet Laureate event.

Pamphlet introducing the new educational not-for-profit charity for literary engagement in Canada via Exile Literary Quarterly, The Excelsis Group. AFM is listed as a mentor for emerging writers.

AFM's annotations in Ashbery's A Wave, Penguin Books, 1984.

Signed contract for reprinting "The Volcano" in the science-fiction publication Amazing Stories Magazine.

Correspondence related to the Bloorcourt BIA Poem Project AFM contributed to in his role as Toronto Poet Laureate. The poem “Passerby” was engraved into a public sculpture.

Handwritten poems and notes for various Toronto Poet Laureate writing projects, events, and radio/public appearances. Includes North York Tragedy, East End Arts and Shab-e-She’r, handwritten laureate agendas, Heritage Tree, The Bentway, Vic Faculty Reading Series poem reading list, Mayor’s Evening for the Arts, and others.

Correspondence related to the memorial service for former Toronto Poet Laureate and friend, Giorgio DiCicco.

Poems composed for original publications and correspondence regarding Toronto Poet Laureate role. Specific writing projects include: poems for council regarding the pandemic, “Exactly Here the Marvel Spoke”; poems celebrating friendship anniversaries between Toronto and Sagamihara, Kviv and Chicago; Emotion Put into Measure podcast preparation; notes for CBC podcast on "Solitude"; and Mayor’s Arts Lunch at Home.

More recent Toronto Poet Laureate work, including Toronto Ravine Days, Dead Poets Night, contribution to saving a Heritage Tree, Victoria College Reading, and Language Martyrs Day script for a livestream audience.

Travel and schedule documents related to AFM’s Gustafson Distinguished Poet’s Visit on Vancouver Island in March 2022. Includes thank-you notes from host.

Early drafts and notes for the Gustafson Lecture/Essay presented to Vancouver Island University in March 2022. First typewritten draft of the lecture with AFM’s handwritten comments. Includes correspondence about the event with host Sonnet L’Abbé.

Final version of the essay, “Poetry: Future Present of the Past” for the Gustafson Lectureship at Vancouver Island University. Includes AFM’s reading version with excisions marked in red, the reading version without excisions, and the complete copy of the essay not shortened for the 60-minute reading time.

Contains a notebook with notes for the Facilitator Appreciation Day Conference of Toronto Writers Collective, 11 Jan 2020. Also includes additional Fundraiser event notes and a small scribbler of Toronto Writers Collective notes.

Correspondence and reports regarding the board meeting of the International Jacques Ellul Society, of which AFM is an active member.

Handwritten draft and typeset copies of “Toronto: Anthem”, a poem written in AFM’s role as Toronto Poet Laureate for Randall Adjei, Ontario Poet Laureate for “Destination Ontario”, a film project.

Printed programs, handwritten lists, correspondence and other planning material related to The Poet Laureate Presents Lost Launches at the Art Bar, a series of readings organized by AFM to promote the works of poets whose books were published in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Readings took place on 29 March, 26 April, 31 May and 28 June 2022.

Also included is a chapbook, "Poemdemic!", published by Secret Handshake Books.

Includes a draft of AFM’s conference paper with handwritten edits, handwritten notes on presenters, a draft poem, programs, travel documents, and a name tag from the International Jacques Ellul Society Conference in Montreal, 7-10 July 2022. AFM was an organizing member and conference presenter.

Handwritten notes, draft poems, programs, reading materials, a publishing contract and correspondence relating to AFM’s participation in the Toronto International Festival of Authors: The Waste Land Project. Three original poems composed for the event are included: “Who Cares if the Sky”, “Beggar Flower Sage” and “The Waste Land 2022”. Also included are a handwritten list of possible interviewers for The Re-Read, handwritten notes from the Theatre of War event, and AFM’s printed schedule.

Printed sheet music for “Coda: The Blues”, commissioned by George Elliott Clarke with music by D.D. Jackson and lyrics by Al Moritz. Later performed by Toronto composer James Rolfe at the Fifth Edition of Clarke’s event, Five Poets Breaking into Song, on 23 September 2022. Autographed by Jackson, Moritz and Clarke.

Early handwritten notes, typed draft poems, handwritten revisions and final draft long poem read at an October 2022 symposium on Emma Goldman, eighty-two years after her death in Toronto (1940). AFM read an original long poem composed for the event and took part in a question and answer regarding Goldman’s years in Toronto.

Printed sheet music for “Marigolds”, commissioned by George Elliott Clarke with music by James Rolfe and lyrics by Al Moritz. Later performed by James Rolfe and Juliet Palmer at the Seventh Edition of Clarke’s event, Five Poets Breaking into Song, on 19 November 2022. Autographed by Jackson, Moritz and Clarke.

Includes a copy of the release form.

Handwritten calendar of April 2022 academic, poetic and administrative activities.

Handwritten notes on Ontario Poets Laureate meetings, February – April 2022.

Toronto Arts Foundation Luncheon program. Includes the seating arrangement for AFM’s table along with biographies of each individual.

Notes and handwritten commentary for an introduction to Luciano Iacobelli, which were also used in a celebration of the poet’s life. Also includes planning materials for a poetic tribute to the late Luciano Iacobelli from the end of 2022.

Toronto Poet Laureate Record of Activities from May 2021 to March 2023. Includes additional printed list of ideas for AFM’s “Legacy Project” as Toronto Poet Laureate, and a list of potential candidates for the next Toronto Poet Laureate with AFM’s notes.

Contains correspondence and scheduling for Exile Quarterly’s 50^th Anniversary celebrations, including AFM’s reading script re: Neruda and artist Gabriella Campos.

Reading copy of AFM’s introduction of John Reibetanz at the launch of Reibetanz’s poetry collection New Songs for Orpheus at the Victoria College Chapel in April 2023.

Reading copy, introduction and new poem, “Dancing in a Green Age”, for the Spring into Poetry event for the Ontario Poetry Society and Aeolus House at the Main Street Branch of Toronto Public Library. Additional handwritten notes are on the manuscript, including a note that AFM’s son Blaise and grandson Toby arrived at the event to wish AFM a happy birthday.

Contains the printed program for the 2023 Toronto Arts Awards Luncheon. Includes the seating arrangement for AFM’s table with handwritten notes on conversations with other guests.

Contains material related to the panel discussion on Poetry and Mysticism at the Aga Kahn Museum as part of its exhibition on the poet Rumi. AFM was a panelist. Includes Globe and Mail article on the exhibition, correspondence and handwritten notes regarding the panel arrangements and exhibits, press release and four pages of AFM’s typewritten poems and notes towards the Rumi presentation, including: “Butterfly, after Jiménez”, “The Judge”, a translation of “Jiménez, Eternidades #125” and notes on all poems and how they relate to Rumi.

Contains material related to the Celebration of New Books by Canadian Bengali Authors event in July 2023. Includes a program with AFM’s notes, AFM’s typescript introduction with pronunciation notes, and “Prescription Poem” from Dr. Dilip Chakraborty. AFM attended and spoke in a guest role as Toronto Poet Laureate.

Poster for National Poetry Month featuring A.F. Moritz and his work Early Poems (2002).

Contains documents related to AFM’s participation on the jury for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, including long lists and short lists, notes from jury Zoom meetings narrowing down the prize winner, invitations to participate as a judge, invitations to formal events and notes towards AFM’s planned appearances at Griffin events.

AFM served as both a jury member and editor of the 2024 Griffin Prize Anthology for Anansi Press, the only jury member to do so. The file also contains his lists of selected poems by short-listed poets and winners for the anthology.

Contains material related to “A Tough Romance: A Commemoration Event for Six Italo-Canadian Poets”. AFM was a key organizer and participant in this event. Includes the event program, AFM’s handwritten meeting notes, the final typescript of the event for all readers (organized in large part by AFM), a facsimile of Pier Girogio DiCicco’s Roman Candles anthology (1978), and a facsimile portion of DiCicco’s Mediterranea, edited by Corrado Paina, another key participant in the event.

Contains first edition materials by the newly organized fine press publisher, French Letter Press, started by Deborah Barnett, whose history and first three publications AFM introduced on the evening of their launch at 25 Liberty Street in Toronto on 6 July 2024. Includes:

1) Seven pages of notes and correspondence between Moritz, Barnett and Beatriz Hausner related to AFM’s opening remarks.

2) The order of operations for the launch.

3) A rare fine press welcome letter attached to Hausner and Barnett’s collaboration The Throat is Syrupy/The Skin Remembers.

4) Sonja Greckol and N. Moskwa’s collaboration Glacier Melt Matters/Prize Inside.

5) Stephen Cain and Jesse Graham’s collaboration This Message Has No Content/The Fall.

Correspondence and documents related to AFM’s poetry appearances in 2020 (virtual) and 2021. Includes a handwritten note about upcoming events, correspondence regarding 2021 poetry events and AFM’s appearance on Howl Radio Broadcast on CIUT FM, invitations to poetry events including the Eden Mills Writers Festival Online, Word on the Street and the Toronto International Festival of Authors, a poem published in Vallum and printed for a Zoom recording, and handwritten notes and an order of events form for Here is Elsewhere: Literature in Translation.

Correspondence and documents related to AFM’s poetry appearances in 2023, including an invitation to the TIFA Opening Reception, AFM’s reading list for a December 6 reading for Bernadette Dyer at the High Park Toronto Public Library Branch, notes from a meeting regarding AFM’s Poet Laureate Legacy Project-Ravine Haiku, and a list of poems to read at the reading and lecture on War Poetry by Michael O’Siadhail at Trinity College in September 2023.

A copy of the 18 July 2024 Weekly Bengali Mail newspaper with an article on AFM, roughly translated as “The Poems of A.F. Moritz – A Sad Song… That Gives Pleasure”. Since beginning his tenure as Toronto’s Poet Laureate in 2019, AFM has been a frequent participant in the annual Canadian Bengali Literary Festival in Scarborough.

Typescript of items AFM read at the Hospital for Sick Children in his remarks on poetry and medicine.

Musical programs, reading order and thank you notes from George Elliott Clarke for two events where AFM’s poetry was put into song and performed for an audience: Wound Turned to Light, Confluence Concerts (October 2023) and George Elliott Clarke Presents 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #12, The Fisher Sessions (May 2024).

Poster from the IV Festival de Poesía, Lenguas de las Americas at the Centro Cultural Universitario in Mexico, featuring AFM among the guest poets. The poster hung in AFM’s office in Northrop Frye Hall for more than a decade.