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The Aboriginal Gathering Place Speaker Series presents Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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Oct 18, 2018 11:30am – 1:00pm

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The Aboriginal Gathering Place Speaker Series presents Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a Ph.D. student and 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta; he is at work on a creative-theoretical project called “The Conspiracy of NDN Joy.” He is also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College.

Billy-Ray’s debut book of poems, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House 2017), won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. It was also named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards. It was also named by CBC Books as the best “Canadian poetry” collection of 2017.

His sophomore book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, is due out in the fall of 2019 with House of Anansi Press.

This event is open to everyone, but space is limited. Please contact Michelle Sound, Aboriginal Program Assistant, if you plan to attend with a class or large group.