Tag Archives: Chrystos

CELEBRATING QUEER INDIGENOUS VOICES WEEK: INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL HEATH JUSTICE + YELLOW MEDICINE REVIEW FALL 2010

Yellow Medicine Review Fall 2010 The Ancestors We Are Looking For We Have Become: International Queer Indigenous Voices Edited By Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran Reviewed By Jorge Antonio Vallejos Near the end of my video interview with Daniel Heath Justice for … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW WITH TORONTO POET TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK

Tara-Michelle Ziniuk is a writer, performer, activist, and new mother working in Guelph and Toronto. She has been published across North America and is the author of two collections of poems: Emergency Contact and Somwhere To Run From. BCP: Why poetry? … Continue reading

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HONOURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2011: PSYCHIC UNREST BY LILLIAN ALLEN + A TALK WITH BLACK FEMINIST ERICA NEEGAN

Psychic Unrest By Lillian Allen Reviewed by Jorge Antonio Vallejos All the great poets learned from those who came before them.  Many young and aspiring poets have Walt Whitman sired.  Willam Butler Yeats has influenced many.  And Sylvia Plath is … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW WITH QUEER LATINA POET JANET ROMERO

Janet Romero-Leiva is a queer feminist latina visual artist and writer whose explores immigrant displacement, denied aboriginality, queer and of colour existence, living and loving in dos lenguas, and the continuous intersection of identities that shape who she is and how … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW WITH CHRYSTOS

Menominee poet Chrystos is a warrior, writer, and arrow in the throat of colonization. Publishing five volumes of poetry, Chrystos is an important voice in the world of literature showing that Native Peoples and Peoples of colour can write, they … Continue reading

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NOT VANISHING

Not Vanishing by Chrystos Reviewed By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I first read about Chrystos in REDWIRE Magazine.  She was listed as one of the top ten Indigenous writers you have to read as an Indigenous person.  I remember the photo … Continue reading

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