About
Donna resides down a long dirt road
and lives in a 1909 homestead
where muses fill her world
with flowing visual poetry.
Published Work
Anthologies
Since 2003, her poems have been in publications/anthologies that include “We Are BEAT Anthology”, 2019, Local Gems Press, National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. CT USA; “Roll Call; Days Of War Anthology”, 2019, SkyWing Press; “The Dream, The Glory and The Strife Anthology”, 2018, Canada Cuba Literary Alliance Anthology; “Tamarack: Canadian Poetry for the 21st-century”, 2018, Lummox Press; “The Long-Islander”, 2014, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838; “Voices Israel Anthology”, 2007 and 2009; “Left a Place To Stand On: Poems and Essays on Al Purdy”, 2009, and “Expressions; Dr William Henry Drummond Anthology”, Volume Two.
Recent Collections
Donna is the Canadian Beat Poet Laureate for 2019-20. As a peaceful "purdyesque" writer, her most recent books include “Cold Fire” - currently short-listed for the 2020 Miramichi Reader's ‘The Very Best Book Award’ (2019, SkyWing Press), “Three Times Around the World” (River Bones Press) and “Ghost in the Window” (2019, River Bones Press), and she curates "Canadian Beat Scene".
Publishing, Editorship, and Adjudication
She has been the founding editor of River Bones Press since 2004 and was editor-in-chief for "POEMATA" Canadian Poetry Association's magazine from 2004-2012. Donna has been an adjudicator for the Acorn-Plantos Book Award (2004, 2006, 2013), Canadian Aid Literary Award (2008 and 2010), and the Arts Hamilton Literary Awards (2004 and 2007).
UPDATE 2019
Member of the New Brunswick Independent Authors Association.
Friends of the Arts: ArtsLinkNB portfolio
Donna Allard is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, Writers Union of Canada, Ohio Poetry Association, and in 2019 she was awarded ‘International Beat Poet Laureate for Canada’ by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. CT USA. She was a three-term former President of The Canadian Poetry Association and former member of the Writer’s Federation of NB. In 2014 Donna was given a position as Honorary Member in the CCLA (Canada Cuban Literary Alliance) by President Poet Laureate Richard Grove. Donna also served on the executive board of directors for the National Milton Acorn Literary Festival (1986-1995), PEI Canada. After thirty years of being published across Canada and Internationally, her writing has been translated into Greek, French, Shetlandic, and Bengali. ‘From Shore to Shoormal’, Donna's first book by a trade publisher, co-authored with Shetland Island poet Natalie Hall published by Brokenjaw Press, 2013, is in English translated into French and the nearly lost Old Scot/Shetland dialect.