John Sobol

John Sobol is a Canadian musician, spoken word poet, and writer living in Ottawa, Ontario. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec and left in 1991. In 1989, he organized a poetry series at La Folie du Large with Fortner Anderson. With Kendrick James and Alex Ferguson, he made up one third of AWOL Love Vibe, a poetry performance trio active from 1993 to 1998. He has curated digifest, an annual festival of digital culture in Toronto. He has worked as a story producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a digital strategist at Canada Council for the Arts from 2014-2017. He ran his own record label, Word of Mouth. He has also initiated many digital projects such as Globalhood, a digital playground for at-risk youth in downtown Toronto, Canada Goes Wild!, a national design showcase at the Aichi World’s Fair, the New Media Circus digital fair, a concept for a mobile content generation fair for Apple Canada, and The Media League, a youth-oriented web start-up.
Publications
Non-fiction
*Montreal Inside Out: A New View of the City. Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 1992.
*Digitopia Blues: Race, Technology, and the American Voice. Banff, AB: Banff Centre Press, 2002.
*Tony Hillerman: A Public Life. Toronto, ON: ECW Press.
Children's books
*Friend or Foe? By John Sobol and Dasha Tolstikova. Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books, 2016.
*Born. By John Sobol and Cindy Derby. Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books, 2020.
Poetry
*The Exstatic Alamanac. London, ON: Insomniac Press, 2002.

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