Billy-Ray Belcourt
Date and Time
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM PST
12:15 PM, February 20th 2020
Location
345 E 9th St, Claremont, CA 91711: Second floor
Fees/Admission
None
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Contact Information
909-621-8237
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Description
Billy-Ray Belcourt is 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. This Wound is a World is his first book; it won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize (making him the youngest recipient), the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It was also named the best “Canadian poetry” collection of 2017by CBC Books. His sophomore book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, is due out in the fall of 2019 with House of Anansi Press.
