sillygwailo

First of all, let me unequivocally state that selecting a rapper for a city’s poet laureate is crazy awesome. Let me unequivocally state that selecting Cadence Weapon for Edmonton is crazy awesome. And the fact that he didn’t know what Rotary Clubs were is also crazy awesome. But if he’s going to have a title with either “poet” or “laureate” in it, he needs to make sure he knows the difference between “adverse” and “averse”.

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“Maybe I should have a poet battle. If people have beef, we’ll see who has the illest prose. Who can do a poem about a flower better? I can make you feel like this flower is in your mouth, man. Delicate.”

— Edmonton’s Incoming Poet Laureate, Roland Pemberton, responds to his detractors in the Globe and Mail