Looking Back at 50 Years of Publishing Success with Windsor's Black Moss Press

Marty Gervais is an award-winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, editor and teacher. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Windsor, Ontario, and now Poet Laureate Emeritus. His awards include the Toronto’s Harbourfront Festival Prize, the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, the City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature, and nearly twenty awards for journalism. Marty is also is the founder and publisher of Windsor-based Black Moss Press, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.For the past five years, Gervais has also led a group of writers and students to France where they read at Shakespeare & Co. Books in Paris.Marty Gervais has written more than a dozen books of poetry, two plays, and a novella. His most successful work, The Rumrunners, a book about the Prohibition period, was a Canadian bestseller in 1980, and again when re-released in 2011. Marty designed and now teaches an Editing & Publishing Practicum at the University of Windsor.https://blackmosspress.com/