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ANISHINAABE SPOKEN WORD POET LENA RECOLLET SINGS HER POETRY
Lena Recollet is an Anishinaabe, fulltime multidisciplinary, artist born in Toronto and raised on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve. A member of the Red Slam Collective, Recollet has been on tour sharing her poetry with many ears across different provinces. … Continue reading
FIREWATER
Firewater By Janet Rogers Reviewed by Jorge Antonio Vallejos Have you heard of the term “taking back”? It often refers to words and phrases that were once used as weapons against different peoples and that have now been adopted by … Continue reading
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Tagged "Addictions", "Distractions", anthropolgy and racism, Black Coffee Poet, drunken Indian, Firewater, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Janet Rogers, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Native American Music Award in Spoken Word 2010, Native Spirituality, Native Spoken Word, Swil Kanim, Turtle Island
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INTERVIEW WITH BROKEN ARROW CONTRIBUTORS TIM RENOLLET AND JAMES C. MILES AND EDITOR EMILY POHL-WEARY
Interview With Broken Arrow Contributors James C. Miles and Tim Renollet BCP: Why poetry? JM: That’s a good question. It has been years since I have sat down and put my feelings to pen. However, since my enrollment in the … Continue reading
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Tagged and Culture, Art, Black Coffee Poet, Broken Arrow, Broken Arrow: Native Men's Writing, Emily Pohl-Weary, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Interview with James C. Miles and Tim Renollet and Emily Pohl-Weary, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Native Men's Residence, Sagatay, Sagatay Apaenmowineen program, Writing Group
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WAEL QATTAN READS HIS POETRY
I met Wael earlier this year at a poetry reading at the Centre for Women and Trans People at University of Toronto. His poetry was striking! Images of the hell that Iraq was in the 90s came from Wael’s lips. … Continue reading
INTERVIEW WITH EHAB LOTAYEF
Ehab Lotayef was born in Cairo and moved to Montreal in 1989. He writes in English, classical Arabic and colloquial Egyptian Arabic. Besides writing poetry, he is also a photographer, Juno Award-nominated songwriter, and playwright. His play Crossing Gibraltar was … Continue reading
ELI CLARE READS HIS POETRY
I first met Eli Clare in March 2008. He was in town for a talk at the Ontario Institute for Secondary Education and agreed to be interviewed. I heard Eli’s footsteps before seeing his smile. Once in front of each … Continue reading
Over 500 Aboriginal Women Have Been Murdered Or Gone Missing In Canada: A Poem To Mayor David Miller
In the summer of 2008 Carolyn Connolly and Katelynn Sampson (pictured left), two Aboriginal women, were murdered days apart in two different neighbourhoods in Toronto. Local newspapers reported the murders, but no real action from police and government was seen, … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Poem To Mayor David Miller", 2008 Letter to the Editor Toronto Star, 500 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal Women, August 13, Black Coffee Poet, Carolyn Connolly, David Miller, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jane Creba, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Katelynn Sampson, Mayor David Miller, Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women, Toronto Star, Violence Against Women, Yonge St.
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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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Tagged "There Are No Third World Women Here", 1988, Anne Cameron, Black Coffee Poet, Chrystos, colonization, Dear Mr. President, Gloria Anzaldua, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, In The Brothel Called America, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Native American Women, Not Vanishing, racism, racism in women's studies programs, There Is A Man Without Fingerprints, Women Studies
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