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Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Poets as Songwriters: An \"EAR LICK\" Sampler "],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Wah, Fred","Truhlar, Richard","Frew, Glen","Pim-Carson, Sandra","Fitzgerald, Judith","Dragland, Stan","Ondaatje, Michael","Dragland, Stan","Reaney, James","Roby, John","Wynne-Jones, Tim","Van Loon, Nelles","Cohen, Leonard","Sereda, David","Pulsifer, Alan","Acker, Liz","Gertler, Alfred","Coleman, Victor","Hodge, Paul","Cheeseman, John","Pitre, Louise","Verwymeren, Mark","Nichol, bp (Barrie 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