Bruce Meyer is a Canadian poet

Poet

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 and educator.

He has been the Director of Writing and Literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, and has taught at the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

, McMaster University

McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...

, Trinity College

University of Trinity College

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 at the University of Toronto, Seneca College

Seneca College

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, Humber College

Humber College

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, and Skidmore College

Skidmore College

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. He has been Visiting Writer at the Universities of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi

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 and University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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, and the Whidden Lecturer at McMaster University

McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...

.

Meyer currently teaches English at Laurentian University

Laurentian University

Laurentian University , was incorporated on March 28, 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada....

 - Barrie Campus, where he is chief editor of The In Site, a poetry and short story magazine for Laurentian Barrie campus students. His broadcasts on "The Great Books" for CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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's This Morning are the network's best-selling audiocassette series.

Selected bibliography

• In Their Words: Interviews with Fourteen Canadian Writers - 1985 (with Brian O'Riordan)
• The Open Room - 1989
• Lives and Works: Interviews with Canadian Writers - 1991 (with Brian O'Riordan)
• Radio Silence - 1992
• Goodbye Mr. Spalding - 1996
• The Stories - 1997
• The Presence - 1999
• Anywhere - 2000
• The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books - 2001
• The Reader: Contemporary Essays and Writing Strategies - 2001 (edited with Carolyn Meyer)
• We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War - 2001 (edited with Barry Callaghan
  Barry Callaghan
  Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan...
  
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• The Spirit Bride - 2002
• "Heroes: The Champions of Our Literary Imagination" - 2007