Monday, November 10th, 6:00pm
VIU Cowichan Campus
Room 135
Also from VIU's Powell River Campus via Video Conference
Janet Marie Rogers Reading from her work and In Conversation
(Also Video-Conferenced to Powell River)
Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She has three published poetry collections: Splitting the Heart, 2007, Red Erotic, 2010, Unearthed, 2011. Her newest collection “Peace in Duress” was released in September 2014. Her poetry CDs Firewater 2009, Got Your Back 2012 and 6 Directions 2013 all received nominations for Best Spoken Word Recording at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards and the Native American Music Awards. You can hear Janet on the radio as she hosts Native Waves Radio on CFUV fm and Tribal Clefs on CBC radio one fm in Victoria BC. Her radio documentaries “Bring Your Drum” (50 years of indigenous protest music) and Resonating Reconciliation won Best Radio at the i!magaineNATIVE Film and Media festival 2011 and 2013.
