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31 Questions with Lishai Peel
The people's poet and her advice for municipal leaders
Lishai Peel, a Hamilton-based poet, is the city’s inaugural Poet in Place. The “Poet in Place” is essentially an official city poet, with the intention of making poetry more accessible and public. Photo: Cathie Coward
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September 2025
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“My job is to reflect the city back to itself,” Peel said. “The storytellers, the writers, the poets, the artists: their job is to really hone into those different divergent legacies and tell stories about them. That’s how we understand ourselves.” Photo: Cathie Coward
Lishai Peel is Hamilton, Ontario’s Poet in Place. It is a position unique to Hamilton. The “Poet
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