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A. J. M. Smith, Canadian poet and anthologist (died 1980)

A. J. M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist (1902–1980)

Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" – the Montreal Group, which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, and F. R. Scott — "who distinguished themselves by their modernism in a culture…
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November 8

Day of the year

November 8 is the 312th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 53 days remain until the end of the year.
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