Sue Goyette has published a novel and six previous collections of poetry, including Ocean (winner of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award and finalist for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize), The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, and Penelope. She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Earle Birney Prize, the ReLit Award, and the Bliss Carman Award. Goyette lives in Halifax, where she teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University. In 2020 she was appointed the city of Halifax’s eighth poet laureate.

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Shalan is an oral storyteller, poet, ecologist, and mother from the traditional district of Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia). She lives and works in her community of L’sitkuk (Bear River First Nation) with her family. Using her theatrical background, shalan brings Mi’kmaw stories to a new generation of listeners, as well as recounting personally crafted narratives that follow Mi’kmaw storying custom. Of both Mi’kmaw and European ancestry, shalan weaves these worldviews in ecology and her writing.

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Shalan is an oral storyteller, poet, ecologist, and mother from the traditional district of Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia). She lives and works in her community of L’sitkuk (Bear River First Nation) with her family. Using her theatrical background, shalan brings Mi’kmaw stories to a new generation of listeners, as well as recounting personally crafted narratives that follow Mi’kmaw storying custom. Of both Mi’kmaw and European ancestry, shalan weaves these worldviews in ecology and her writing.

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Begin with a research plan, a strategy of how you are going to approach your topic. Formulate research questions, which should be interesting to you and your reader. Create a timeline to help keep you on track, and how you will strategize searching for sources, evaluating and reading sources, and note-taking. From planning your first draft to writing and revising your second draft, and finally, editing and polishing your final draft.

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In celebration of Black History Month, I want to share the work of two amazing spoken word artists: Shauntay Grant, a writer and storyteller from Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), who served as the third poet laureate for Halifax Regional Municipality from 2009 to 2011, and Tanya Evanson, who has published two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018). Her first novel Book of Wings (2021) is published by Véhicule Press.

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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 the 1920s. 

In this week's episode, you will hear some of the “Red River Jig,” by the Metis Fiddler Quartet, and we will dive into Porter's poem "Childhood, Remembered," and hear an exclusive recording of Walbourne-Gough's "Geraldine Winnifred Walbourne," in order to connect with place, memory, and ancestry through poetry.

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In this week's episode, we will discuss "caribou ghosts & untold stories," "constellation," "this accident of being lost," and watch the videos for "road salt," and "how to steal a canoe," for our virtual salon.

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In this episode, we will examine both the short stories and songs in order to understand the relationship between text, body, and sound. We will read and listen to: “under your always light,” “the oldest tree in the world,” and “I am graffiti.” 

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