About the Author
Janet Rogers
Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations territory, living as a guest on Coast Salish territory since 1994. She is a recording artist, former Poet Laureate of Victoria, the University of Northern British Columbia Writer-in-Residence for 2015 and the Ontario College of Art and Design NIGIG Visual Culture Visiting Artist in 2016.
This week we appreciated local food producers, discovered and shared Indigenous-authored books, arm-chair traveled back to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and much more.
Spoken word artist, radio host, and former poet laureate of Victoria Janet Rogers explores the beauty and brutality of the world in her sixth poetry collection As Long As the Sun Shines (Bookland Press). These poems speak as "not an instructional / but a list from them ... Read more
Recently, All Lit Up got an exciting new addition: Indigenous Litspace, a site that highlights the ever-growing list of Indigenous authors and books we're lucky enough to read, talk about, and share with you. To make more space for these incredible and essential writers, ... Read more
Happy National Poetry Month (NPM)! We’ve got our fists up with our series Poets Resist dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day on the blog we’re featuring a poet whose work explores one of these: colonialism and violence, homophobia and transphobia, environmental ... Read more
Day two of #poetsresist for National Poetry Month calls up Janet Rogers to the anti-colonialism plate: her fourth collection Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books) interrogates Canada's often hurtful relationship with Indigenous Peoples in the post-TRC era of our history. ... Read more
Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more
With four poetry collection under her belt, Janet Rogers gives us a fifth, Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books), a well-versed reflection on the relationship between Indigenous nations and corporate Canada. Janet offers intimate, thought-provoking poems we can really get ... Read more
This week there are just heaps of readings: whether it's fiction or poetry you're after, there's events on both coasts in Halifax, Vancouver, and Victoria (plus some in Toronto!).
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the ... Read more
Marie "Annharte" Baker is the 2015 winner of the inaugural Blue Metropolis First People Literary Prize for her last poetry collection, Indigena Awry, published by New Star Books in 2012. When we asked Annharte to suggest an emerging poet she chose Chris Bose, a writer and ... Read more
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