Ted Plantos

Ted Plantos (1943–2001) was a Canadian poet, writer, editor and promoter of Canadian literature.

Life
Plantos ran the Toronto Public Library's reading series from 1970–1977. He led the People's Poetry Workshops on a weekly basis for the Toronto library system at The House On Gerard during the same time period. He co-founded and ran Old Nun Publications from 1972–1975. Old Nun magazine came out of this endeavour. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association in January 1985. He was known as "The Poet of Parliament Street".

Plantos owned and ran a Canada-wide literary magazine, Cross Canada Writer's Quarterly from 1978 to 1991. In that year it was purchased by Beverley Daurio and the name was changed to Paragraph magazine. Afterward, Plantos was responsible for beginning the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Newsletter and the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award.

Publications

 * The Seasons Are My Sacraments (Old Nun Publications, 1972)
 * She Wore a Streetcar to the Wedding (Missing Link, 1973)
 * All the Easy Oils of Energy (Missing Link, 1974)
 * Vigil (Pikadilly Press, 1976) ISBN 9780919878105
 * The Light Is On My Shoulder (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1977) ISBN 9780920110065
 * The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen (Steel Rail, 1977) ISBN 9780887910098
 * This Tavern Has No Symmetry (Steel Rail, 1979) ISBN 9780887910210
 * Passchendaele (Black Moss Press, 1983)
 * Heather Hits Her First Home Run (Black Moss Press, 1986)
 * The Newfy Girl, Broadside HMS Press 1988)
 * At Home on Earth (Black Moss Press, 1992)
 * Mosquito Nirvana (Wolsak and Wynn, 1993) ISBN 9780919897366
 * Dogs Know About Parades (Black Moss Press, 1993)
 * Daybreak's Long Waking: Poems Selected and New (Black Moss Press, 1997) ISBN 9780887532993
 * Remembrance Day: essays on John McCrae's In Flanders Fields (HMS Press, 1997)
 * The Shanghai Noodle Killing (Seraphim Editions, 2000) ISBN 9780969963974

People's Poetry anthologies

 * The House Poets
 * Poems for Sale in the Streets
 * Not to Rest in Silence 1996 ISBN 9781884206009