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Coming together over a painful past; two poets are honored; and a pick of the week from Tochi Onyebuchi

Coming together over a painful past; two poets are honored; and a pick of the week from Tochi Onyebuchi Nina MacLaughlin © Anna Keenan Canisia Lubrin (above) and Serhiy Zhadan have won this year s Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Coming together Over the span of six years in the late eighties and early nineties, a group of Indigenous tribes of Northern New England and the Canadian Maritime provinces gathered twice a year with white non-natives to do the hard work of repairing the painful, violent, and destructive relationship that has long been the hallmark between settlers and Indigenous people. The objective of these meetings was simple: to know and understand one another. A new book, “The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations” (University of Toronto) written by Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane, a Passamaquoddy term selected to represent the 13 co-authors, tells the story of these important meetings. “We descendants of these settlers, as

Poetry gods smile on Joseph Dandurand as he gets ready for Verses Festival of Words

by Charlie Smith on April 19th, 2021 at 6:13 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1 April is National Poetry Month and this year’s theme is resilience. It’s a fitting choice in light of the recent recognition accorded to Joseph Dandurand. He s an archeologist, member of the Kwantlen First Nation, and author of The East Side of It All (Nightwood Editions). This collection of poems shares some of his experiences as a Downtown Eastside drug user trying to reconnect with family and his Indigenous roots. He recently made the Canadian shortlist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, which will be announced on June 23. The two other Canadian finalists are Canisa Lubrin for

Contest - Room Magazine

Contests Poetry | June 15 – August 15 Short Forms | September 1 – November 15 Questions or problems with your submission? Need an alternate entry method due to a disability? Contact contests [at] roommagazine [dot] com. Read our Contest FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 +  Room’s 2021 Judge: Jenny Heijun Wills Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of “Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.” It won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Prize. It was a 2019 Globe & Mail Best Book and a 2019 CBC Best in Canadian Non-Fiction Book. She is Chancellor’s Research Chair at the University of Winnipeg where she also teaches in the English Department. She is writing a novel.

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