Indigenous Poetry Collection

INDIGENOUS OF TURTLE ISLAND | CANADA

Bones, by Tyler Pennock
Blood, by Tyler Pennock
It was never going to be okay, by jaye simpson
77 fragments of a familiar run: poems, by Thomas King
NDN coping mechanisms, by Billy-Ray Belcourt
This wound is a world: poems, by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Totem poles & railroads, by Janet Marie Rogers
Witness I am, by Gregory Scofield
River woman, by Katherena Vermette
Lnu and Indians we're called, by Rita Joe
Song of Eskasoni: more poems of Rita Joe, by Rita Joe
Injun, by Jordan Abel
The pemmican eaters, by Marilyn Dumont
A Really Good Brown Girl, by Marilyn Dumont
In the dog house, by Wanda John-Kehewin
North end love songs, by Katherena Vermette
Holy Wild, by Gwen Benaway (questioned Indigeneity)
Full-Metal Indigiqueer, by Joshua Whitehead

Scars & Stars, by Jesse Thistle UPDATED JUNE 9, 2025
Teeth, by Dallas Hunt
Creeland, by Dallas Hunt
More Sure, by A. Light Zachary
The White Line, by Daniel David Moses
Disintegrate/Dissociate, by Arielle Twist
Treaty #, by Armand Garnet RUffo
Shapeshifters, by Delani Valin
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, by Liz Howard
Satched, by Megan Gail Coles
I Place You into the Fire, by Rebecca Thomas
What Fills YOur House Like Smoke, by E. McGregor
The All + Flesh, by Brandi Bird
The Big Melt, by Emily Riddle
On/Me, by Francine Cunningham
Calling Down the Sky, by rosanna deerchild
The Crooked Good, by Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe
Poetry, by Duke Redbird (missing)

INDIGENOUS & ABORIGINAL | AROUND THE WORLD

Junk, by Tommy Pico (United States)
When my brother was an Aztec, by Natalie Diaz (United States)
Sunset, by Maggie Walsh (Australia)
Comfort Food, by Ellen Van Neerven (Australia)
Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future), by Lionel G. Fogarty (Australia)
Love Poems and Death Threats, by Samuel Wagan Watson (Australia)

Links to Poetry Readings

Rosanna Deerchild reads her poem "On the First Day" (From Calling Down the Sky)
Gregory Scofield reads his poem " She is Spitting a Mouthful of Stars" (From Witness, I am)

Francine Cunningham reads her poem, “On Grief / Build Up”

Poet Jordan Abel reads from Injun

Poet Tyler Pennock reads his untitled poem

"Remembering Helen Betty Osborne" by Marilyn Dumont

Wanda John-Kehewin at the Talonbooks Spring 2013 Poetry Launch

jaye simpson, 2021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalist

Poet Liz Howard reads from Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

FULL STORY: I Lost my Talk

(Rita Joe reads 2:25 "I Lost My Talk")

Megan Gail Coles Reads from Satched: "I Was Christopher James"

nêhiyawak - Marilyn Dumont on her poem Opitemisiwak

Sky Dancer (Louise Bernice Halfe) Reads from Blue Marrow and The Crooked Good

Rebecca Thomas - Matoax | Artists in Residence

E. McGregor - Book Trailer - What Fills Your House Like Smoke

Brandi Bird Winnipeg launch of The All + Flesh (House of Anansi)

Emily Riddle reads from The Big Melt

Dallas Hunt reads "The Cree Word for Careening" | Poets Corner Reading Series

"I am" by Joshua Whitehead

Poet Billy-Ray Belcourt reads from This Wound is a World, "Ode To Northern Alberta"

(at 10:20 min) "What are the Ethics of Picking a Stinging Plant?" by Delani Valin

(at 14:25 min) "The Mothers of the Disappeared", "What Reconnection Looks Like", by Jesse Thistle

"Totem Poles and Railroads" by Janet Rogers

3 Poems read by Daniel David Moses

Matthew Zhou: “Poem For Duncan Campbell Scott” by Armand Garnet Ruffo

(at 31:40 min) Of Uncertain Blood: Tekahionwake/E. Pauline Johnson

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