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Janet Rogers

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January Marie Rogers (née Janet Marie Rogers, born January 29, 1963) is a First Nations Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Ontario Six Nations.[1] Her work includes poetry and spoken-word performance poetry.[2]

Early life

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Rogers was born in Vancouver. Since 1994, she 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 in June 2019, where she is initiating a book press Ojistoh Publishing and a Six Nations Inaugural Literary Award (SNILA).

Published works

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Poetry

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  • Splitting the Heart (2007) Ekstasis Editions
  • Red Erotic (2010) Ojistoh 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)
  • “Ego of a Nation” (2021) Ojistoh Publishing
  • "The State of Indigeneity 2022" (2024) F(r)iction Magazine (written under the name "January Rogers")[3]

Recordings

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  • Firewater (2009)
  • Got Your Back (2012)
  • 6 Directions (2013)
  • As Long As the Sun Shines (2018) companion recording on reverbnation

Awards

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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.[4]

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.[5]

From January 2012 to November 2014, Rogers was City of Victoria's Poet Laureate.[6] In 2015, she was named writer in residence for the University of Northern British Columbia.[7] In September 2018, Rogers began a year-long writer in residence position at the University of Alberta.[8]

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.

From September 2022 to April 2023, Rogers was Western University in London ON's 50th Writer-In-Residence, a position shared with London Public Library, where she mentored both students and writers in the general community alike.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Janet Rogers". Talon Books.
  2. ^ a b "Janet Marie Rogers". strongnations.com. Strong Nations Publishing.
  3. ^ Rogers, January (February 2024). Hedlund, Dani (ed.). "Behind the Masks: A Community Feature with Yellow Medicine Review ("The State of Indigeneity 2022")". F(r)iction: A Literary Anthology (21). Brink Literacy Project: 69.
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Janet Marie Rogers - Opposite Directions. YouTube.
  5. ^ Cram, Stephanie (February 13, 2016). "Mohawk broadcaster Janet Rogers launches NDNs on the Airwaves". CBC News. CBC Indigenous. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  6. ^ "Thank You Janet Rogers Victoria's Third Poet Laureate". City of Victoria. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  7. ^ "UNBC welcomes Janet Rogers as Writer in Residence". Talon Books. November 10, 2015.
  8. ^ McKinnon, Donna (16 October 2018). "Mohawk poet Janet Rogers raises her voice to claim Indigenous space". Faculty of Arts. University of Alberta. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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