Janet Rogers
Janet Marie Rogers (born January 29, 1963) is a First Nations Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Ontario Six Nations.[1][2]
Early life[]
She was born in Vancouver. Since 1994, Rogers has lived on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people in Victoria on Vancouver Island.[1] First working as a visual artist, she began writing in 1996.[2] Janet Rogers moved to the Six Nations reserve June 2019 where she is initiating a book press Ojistah Publishing and a Six Nations Inaugural Literary Award (SNILA).
Published Works[]
Poetry[]
- Splitting the Heart (2007) Ekstasis Editions
- Red Erotic (2010) Ojistah Publishing
- Unearthed (2011) Leaf Press
- Peace in Duress (2014) Talon Books
- Totem Poles and Railroads (2016) ARP Books
- As Long as the Sun Shines (2018) Bookland Press, Mohawk edition translated by Jeremy Green (2019)
Recordings[]
- Firewater (2009)
- Got Your Back (2012)
- 6 Directions (2013)
- As Long As the Sun Shines (2018) companion recording on reverbnation
Awards[]
Rogers has been nominated in the category Best Spoken Word Recording at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards and the Native American Music Awards.[1] She has also been featured at the Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam, where she performed her spoken word poem "Opposite Directions" in 2013.[3]
Rogers has hosted the radio programs Native Waves Radio on CFUV and Tribal Clefs on CBC Radio One Victoria. She produced the radio documentaries Bring Your Drum: 50 Years of Indigenous Protest Music Resonating Reconciliation, which received awards for Best Radio at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.[1] She produced a 6-part radio documentary titled NDNs on the Airwaves 2016 and a short doc of the same title with her media team 2Ro Media.[4]
From January 2012 to November 2014, Rogers was Victoria's Poet Laureate.[5] In 2015, she was named writer in residence for the University of Northern British Columbia.[6] In September 2018, Rogers began a year-long writer in residence position at the University of Alberta.[7]
Rogers formed the collective Ikkwenyes (Dare to Do) with Mohawk poet Alex Jacobs. The collective has received a Collaborative Exchange Award from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Loft Literary Fellowship prize from The Loft Literary Center.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Janet Rogers". Talon Books.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Janet Marie Rogers". strongnations.com.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCh83pq7ew
- ^ "Mohawk broadcaster Janet Rogers launches NDNs on the Airwaves". CBC Indigenous. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ "Thank You Janet Rogers Victoria's Third Poet Laureate". City of Victoria. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- ^ "UNBC welcomes Janet Rogers as Writer in Residence". Talon Books.
- ^ "Mohawk poet Janet Rogers raises her voice and others to claim Indigenous space | Faculty of Arts". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
External links[]
- Janet Rogers at IMDb
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Canadian women poets
- Tuscarora people
- Canadian Mohawk people
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- First Nations poets
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- First Nations women writers
- 21st-century First Nations writers
- Six Nations of the Grand River