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September 30, 2011—The City of Mississauga is now home to the seventh installation in the Project Bookmark Canada series. This Bookmark features “Song for the Field Behind Mississauga Valley Public School,” a poem from the Trillium Book Award-winning collection Tiny, Frantic, Stronger by Jeff Latosik, who grew up in the Bloor and Cawthra area. The collection is published by Insomniac Press. 
“We’re very pleased to bring Jeff Latosik’s beautiful poem to the community where it’s set,” said Miranda Hill, Founder and Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada. 

September 13, 2011—Project Bookmark Canada is unveiling four new installations this fall, one each in Midland, Port Colborne, Hamilton and Mississauga. At each site, Project Bookmark Canada will install a poster-sized ceramic plaque bearing a significant piece of text from a story or poem set in that exact Ontario location.

The Bookmarks are:

For Immediate Release—On October 26, Ottawa will mark its place in Canada’s literary landscape when a plaque bearing a portion of Elizabeth Hay’s Garbo Laughs is unveiled in the neighbourhood of Old Ottawa South. Members of the public are invited to the unveiling ceremony that will take place at 1 p.m. on the West side of Bronson Place (near Fulton) at Colonel By Drive, on the South Side of the Canal, just East of the Bronson Street Bridge.

For Immediate Release—Project Bookmark Canada, the national initiative to create a network of tributes to site-specific literature across Canada, is returning to Toronto with the installation of two new Bookmarks in the city.