His poetry, novels and songs are known around the world. Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. Other poets involved in its creation included bill bissett-whose blewointmentpress printed a handbill advertising an open organizational meeting for April 2, 1967-as well as Pierre Coupey, Gerry Gilbert and Milton Acorn.
The history is fuzzy, but certainly the newspaper had literary beginnings. This subsequently gave rise to a cooperatively managed newspaper called the Georgia Straight, later controlled and owned by McLeod. The first organizational meeting was held at the home of Rick Kitaeff on March 30, 1967. The story goes that Dan McLeod and like-minded writers, counter-culturalists and students decided to start a 'peace paper' at a Vancouver party following a poetry reading by Leonard Cohen in February of 1967. He showed us where to look among the garbage and the flower children.
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