okcupid (Billy-Ray Belcourt)[which is say that to be native and queer / is to sometimes forget how to love yourself] | Reading of "okcupid" by Billy-Ray Belcourt from his collection "This Wound is a World." | (Disclaimer: I'm not Cree or Oji-Cree. However, I am an Indigenous Anishinaabe (Ojibwe/Chippewa) person. The Cree and Anishinaabeg peoples are geographic neighbors and our cultures are cousinly, I suppose you could say.)Play Count: 750 [OJB/ENG] Wenesh waa ezhiwebag maampii Chigamigong / A poem for the children of the Great Lakes (Margaret Noodin)A reading of both the Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin and English versions of a short poem by Margaret Noodin about how the future of the Anishinaabe language and the future of our people is connected. ||
["Maamwimaajaan ina Anishinaabemowyaan miinawaa neseyaan?"
"Do they leave together, our language and the last breath?"] ||
I am by no means a fluent speaker yet, but I have been studying Anishinaabemowin for many years now. The language was taken a few generations back in my family due to pressures of assimilation and residential schools and I see it as my responsibility as member of an Anishinaabe nation to use my abilities and resources to learn and help bring the language forward for those yet to come.Play Count: 655 The Cree Word for a Body Like Mine is Weesageechak (Billy-Ray Belcourt)"i was born during a falling leaves moon; which is to say i have always been good at sacrifice" | Reading of "The Cree Word for a Body Like Mine is Weesageechak" by Billy-Ray Belcourt from his collection "This Wound is a World" | (Disclaimer: I'm not Cree. However, I am an Indigenous Anishinaabe person. The Cree and Anishinaabeg peoples are geographic neighbors and our languages and cultures are cousinly, I suppose you could say.)Play Count: 815 Scheherazade (Richard Siken)[Tell me about the dream where we pulled the bodies out of a lake / and dress them in warm clothes again]
Reading of "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken from "Crush"Play Count: 737 Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out (Richard Siken)"The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.
Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time."
Reading one of my perennial favorites: "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken from "Crush"Play Count: 693