About the Author
D.A. Lockhart
D.A. Lockhart is the author of The Gravel Lot that Was Montana (Mansfield Press, 2018), This City at the Crossroads (Black Moss Press, 2017), and Big Medicine Comes to Erie (Black Moss Press, 2016). His work has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. He is also the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press. A Turtle Clan member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, Lockhart currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong on the south shore of the Detroit River (most often referred to as the border cities of Windsor ON and Detroit MI).
This weekend Carol Rose GoldenEagle author of Essential Ingredients joins us to share when she began her writing journey, whose poetry collections she admires, and how memories hold magic.
Poetry Muse kicks off with Daniel Lockhart, author of Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press). D.A Lockhart describes his poetry collection as "history decolonized turned lyric, left to sing of and celebrate what is given to us by our history and our collective survival". ... Read more
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This week ALU Read the Provinces rolled on with eight more authors and books to discover. Cozy up this weekend with our interviews and picks!
Devil in the Woods (Brick Books), the fourth collection from D.A. Lockhart, features letters and prayer poems that convey the experiences of an Anishnaabe man interacting with famous non-Indigenous Canadians from Don Cherry to Emily Carr. Through Indigenous poetics, this ... Read more
At All Lit Up we know Canadian books to be compelling, genre-bending, out-of-the-box literature that we love to share. That's why all January long we're bringing you interviews with authors from every province and just about every territory along with excerpts from their books. ... Read more
After the first week of back-to-school hustle, you deserve a break! Head into the weekend with one of these recommended reads that are so hot off the presses, it'll feel like July all over again.
This week we took to the patio again for a bookclub discussion of Missy Marston's Bad Ideas (ECW Press), chatted with Bindu Suresh about writer's block, played casting director with Sally Cooper's With My Back to the World, and read The Nap-Away Motel, a debut novel that's The ... Read more
This week we contemplated decolonization and Indigenous Poetics with an essay from D.A. Lockart, introduced our August #alubookclub pick, armchair explored some Canadian trails, and queued up a Spotify playlist.
Let’s start with where my thought process begins. I am waiting in a sun-baked parking lot at the edge of the Leamington, Ontario ferry dock. July heat is cooking the rows of cars and trucks around me. Around us, Waabishkiigo Gchigami is lightly rolling waves into shore and ... Read more
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