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Sharon Harris

ABOUT ILYG


Three little words,
Oh what I'd give for that wonderful phrase.
To hear those three little words,
That's all I'd live for the rest of my days.
And what I feel in my heart, they say sincerely.
No other words can tell it half so clearly.
Three Little Words,
Eight little letters,
Which simply mean I love you!

-Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar


If a tin pan alley song-writing team pens a number one ditty about wanting to be loved, there are a few people out there looking for love.

So...why not just be the person who says these words? Why not spread happiness? What's stopping you?

ILYG opened its virtual doors in Spring 2002, with a clickable map of Toronto's I Love You graffiti, and photos of Toronto literary events (now housed at Poetography.ca). Since then, the site has grown to include multiple galleries of work by its proprietor, alongside art by photographers and graffiti artists from across North America.

Winter 2005-06, Harris presented a solo exhibition, I Love You Toronto, which received nationwide media coverage. Sharon's first collection of poetry, AVATAR, contains a section named after the I Love You Virus, and was launched by The Mercury Press in fall, 2006, at Pages Books' and NOW Magazine's This Is Not a Reading Series. She is Past Books Editor at Torontoist.com, and is currently working on an illustrated manuscript, I Love You: 3 Words, 8 Letters.