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Marchand, Blaine, 1949-
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Dates of existence
1949-
History
Blaine Marchand was born in 1949 in Ottawa, Ontario.
He is a Canadian writer and poet. A longtime program manager with the Canadian International Development Agency, some of his writing has been inspired by his international travels with the organization. In 2012, he was guest editor of an issue of the Canadian poetry magazine Vallum dedicated to poets from Pakistan. From 1992 to 1994, he was president of the League of Canadian Poets. He was also a co-founder of the Ottawa Independent Writers, the Ottawa Valley Book Festival and the Canadian Review, and a regular columnist for Ottawa's LGBT newspaper Capital Xtra!. He received several awards, e.g., Georgia May Cook Sonnet Award (1971), Anthos Poetry Prize (1987) and Archibald Lampman Award (1992). Marchand published many collections of poems, e.g., "After the Fact" (1979), "Bodily Presence" (1994) and "The Craving of Knives" (2009) and a novel, "African Journey" (1990).
Openly gay, he lives in Ottawa, Ontario.