Event Speaker: Ronna Bloom

Ronna Bloom is a Toronto-based poet and educator and the author of seven books of poetry. Her work has been broad- cast on CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into Bangla and Chinese, and appeared three times in Best Canadian Poetry. Ronna is also someone who puts poetry to work in the world; she has led initiatives to bring poetry into health care settings, specifically developing the first Poet-in-Residence program at Mount Sinai Hospital/ Sinai Health.