Visionary, poet, novelist, essayist, B.W. Powe is the author of the influential books, Mystic Trudeau, The Solitary Outlaw and Towards a Canada of Light, the novel Outage and the book of poetry, The Unsaid Passing. The latter was a finalist for the ReLit Prize. He was the program coordinator for three significant symposia-Marshall McLuhan: What If He Was Right? (1997), The Trudeau Era (1998), and Living Literacies (2002), all held at York University. He has been working to establish the McLuhan Centre for the Study of Multiple Literacies at York, where he is a Professor of English.