Featured Image: Inuit throat singer Nina Segalowitz and Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark, TheWords and Music Show:Enkonkara Tonhase – Let Me Tell You A Story. Photo by Shannon Webb-Campbell, 2023. Colonial borders and academic pedagogy like to keep things separate, to compartmentalize. To define...
We are waking up to our history from a forced slumber We are breathing it into our lungs so it will be a part of us again It will make us angry at first because we will see how much you stole from us and for how long you watched us suffer we will see ...
Oneida Youth on Parliament Hill, December 2018. Photo by Brandon Doxtator Yesterday I saw misery, pain and Yesterday I saw my people take a stand for justice Today I saw arrests, and treaty rights being stepped on Today I saw my brothers and sisters forcibly removed from their land Tomorrow I will see r...
Image Credit: Highwater Press, 2020 Lisa Boivin’s I Will See You Again thoughtfully and carefully carries readers through her oldest brother’s death overseas, and shares her personal story of bringing him home. This is an illustrated children’s book, a visual letter-poem, rooted in family, love, and hea...
Montreal-based Innu poet Maya Cousineau-Mollen published her first book in French, “Bréviaire du matricule 082,” with Éditions Hannenorak, this past fall. Her powerful collection, which has already sold out of its first print run and is going into a second edition, explores anger, identity, allyship, ho...
Mixed/adopted Mi’kmaq Newfoundland poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough’s debut collection, Crow Gulch (Goose Lane 2019) unearths an almost forgotten history of a community known as Crow Gulch, a mostly shaded and stigmatized area around Corner Brook built when the newsprint mill was constructed in 1920s. While...
Metis poet Michelle Porter believes all poetry is inquiry. A journalist by trade, and an academic by training (she holds a PhD in Geography from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Porter’s debut poetry collection, Inquiries (Breakwater 2019), beautifully illustrates how she questions her...
You Are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World, Smokii Sumac’s debut poetry collection, is a place to rest awhile and find honest expressions of hope, grief, rage and falling in love. In You are Enough, the specificity of daily life in Michi Saagig territory (coffee and the Odenabe) moves alongside...
Author, Carol Daniels | Image source: Inanna Publications & Education Inc. Cree and Dene author Carol Rose Daniels latest Hiraeth (Inanna Publications), a collection of poetry, upholds the strength and resilience of First Nations and Métis women and how the impact of the Sixties Scoop ruptured a se...
Jules Koostachin at book launch at the Pow Wow Cafe in Toronto | Image credit: Mahiigan Koostachin Jules Koostachin is one of those authors who started writing intuitively in an attempt to process pain and, coincidentally, created a medicine from which we can all benefit. It’s hard not to honour someone...
