There’s something evocative about being in the forest at night. Rooted in Indigenous Teachings, the First Nations Garden in Montréal’s Gardens of Light 2024, is a contemporary poetic experience from September 1 to October 31, 2024. Through Indigenous Storytelling – the words and recordings of Innu poet ...
Our stories are written and reflected in our bodies. Our DNA, our memories, and our somatic experiences are a setting as vital as the external world through which we navigate. In Cree poet Dallas Hunt’s second collection Teeth, the titular body parts are pieces of autobiography that erupt from those pla...
Douglas Walbourne-Gough is a poet and mixed/adopted status member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation from Elmastukwek, which is colonially known as the Bay of Islands in western Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and a PhD in Engli...
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...
