Canadian Poets Series #39 : Laurie D. Graham
Laurie D. Graham [photo credit: Jason Graham] grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, outside of amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, Alberta, and she now lives in Tkaronto/Toronto, Treaty 13 and Williams Treaties Territory, where she is a poet, the publisher of Brick magazine , and senior editor for Knopf Canada and Alchemy . Her maternal family comes from east-central Alberta by way of Ukraine and Poland, and her paternal family comes from central Saskatchewan by way of Northern Ireland and Scotland. She has about a century of history in Canada. Laurie’s first book, Rove [ see a review by Danielle Janess at Arc Poetry Magazine ; see a review by Shelley A. Leedahl at SaskBooks ; see a review by Michael Greenstein at The Malahat Review ]. was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education [ see a review by Klara Du Plessis at Montreal Serai ; a review by Candace Fertile at Quill and Quire ;...
