from 1980 to 1989, she served as associate editor of "cross-canada writers' quarterly/magazine", and into the 1990s, led poetry workshops for the toronto board of education, ryerson university, and university of toronto school of continuing studies. in 1985, she founded the writers' resource wordwrights canada, and in 1988, created its poetry course, which until 2017 ran online as lessons in writing the poem.