TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am PoetTree Project: The Poetry of Sports & the Sport of Poetry
PARTICIPATE in the creation of the York University TO2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Poet‐Tree installation, an IGNITE community partner of the Games! Send in original poems of your own or of verses (max. 6 lines) by your favourite poet from one of the 41 represented countries competing in the Toronto 2015 Pan American / Parapan American Games . Include your name, email and/or postal address and phone number, to be entered to win a monthly prize (February – July 2015). Poems can be in any of the languages spoken in the 41 countries. The Games will be taking place in Ontario July 10‐26 and August 7‐15, 2015. Before then, Canada will be preparing to welcome athletes and visitors from across the globe to Toronto and surrounding cities, and we will be building poet‐trees as a sign of celebration! York University venues will host the Athletics and Tennis matches, and the opening ceremonies of the Parapan Am Games. (panam2015.info.yorku.ca/). At the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games, 7,600 top athletes from the Americas and Caribbean will compete at more than 30 venues located in 16 municipalities across southern Ontario. Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba
Bahamas
Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada
Costa Rica Cuba
Dominica
Barbados
Belize Bermuda
Cayman Islands Chile Colombia
Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador
Grenada Guatemala Guyana
Haiti
Honduras Jamaica
Mexico Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Peru Puerto Rico
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela Virgin Islands
The challenge is on for other groups to make Poet‐Trees to be eligible to win a basket of TO2015 Games swag!
For more information, contact us at
[email protected] and visit www.yorku.ca/laps/dlll/ignite /POETREE2015
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, and
Founders College Master’s Office
LA&PS Research Events and Outreach Fund and the External Relations Community Outreach Fund
