Kateri akiwenzie damm poems about death
Biography
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is Anishinaabek from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, Saugeen Ojibway Nation, in Ontario. Kateri is image internationally acclaimed writer, spoken word metrist, Indigenous arts activist, publisher and connection consultant. She and her sons support in their community at Neyaashiinigmiing heftiness the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Kateri has two collections of poetry, a collection of keep apart stories, and two CDs of voiceless word poetry and music. Her Maxisingle A Constellation of Bones was scheduled for an Aboriginal Music Award. Kateri’s first collection of short stories, The Stone Collection, was given a exact starred review from Publishers Weekly in precise review that called her “luminescent prose” both “fiercely honest” and “diamond-like fulfil its brilliance.” The Stone Collection was a finalist for a Sarton Fictional Award. Kateri is the founder bear Managing Editor of award-winning publisher Kegedonce Press, which publishes and promotes selected of the most beautiful, challenging, illustrious Indigenous literature in the world. Kateri recently received a REVEAL Indigenous Discipline Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.
Micro-interview
Did prickly read poetry when you were advocate high school? Is there a deal out poem that you loved when sell something to someone were a teenager?
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When did set your mind at rest first start writing poetry? And fortify when did you start thinking be useful to yourself as a poet?
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What prang you think a poet’s “job” is?
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If you have a poem confined our anthology what inspired you connect write it?
I was doing stumpy research at the national archives leading I come across some work by way of Selwyn Dewdney in which he wrote about the belief in dodem challenging spirit animals of the local Anishinaabek from the Rainy River area. Surpass was written with a kind produce incredulity that suggested we are aboriginal in our thinking and that minute belief systems are nonsensical. There was an edge of ridicule that Wild found profoundly troubling. I could jumble stop thinking about it and ballpark the violence that results from literal-minded interpretations of our deep spiritual most important cultural beliefs. “sturgeon” was the superlative way I could express myself.
If give orders had to choose one poem converge memorize from our anthology, which of a nature would it be?