Lockbolted Letters to Turbo

Authors

  • David Groulx Aboriginal Poet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.408

Keywords:

Native American

Abstract

excerpt from Always a Broken Sleep

in the days I was known as Papillon

Author Biography

David Groulx, Aboriginal Poet

DAVID GROULX was raised in Northern Ontario. He is proud of his Aboriginal roots – Ojibwe Indian and French Canadian. After receiving his BA from Lakehead University, where he won the Munro Poetry Prize, David studied creative writing at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C., where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He has also studied at The University of Victoria Creative Writing Program.

David has had nine poetry books published—Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications: Sault Ste Marie, 1997); The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press, Neyaashiinigmiing, 2000); Under God's Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press, Neyaashiinigmiing, 2010); A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn: Hamilton, ON 2011); Rising With A Distant Dawn (BookLand Press: Toronto, ON 2011); Imagine Mercy (BookLand Press: Toronto, ON 2013); These Threads Become A Thinner Light (Theytus Books, Penticton, BC 2014); and In The Silhouette Of Your Silences (N.O.N Publishing, Vancouver, BC 2014). Wabigoon River Poems is David's ninth title. (Kegedonce Press, Neyaashiinigmiing, 2015).

David won the 3rd annual Poetry NOW Battle of the Bards in 2011, and was a featured reader at the IFOA in Toronto & Barrie (2011), as well as Ottawa Writer's Festival (2012). David has appeared on The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and was the Writer-In-Residence for Open Book Toronto for November 2012.

David's poetry has been translated into Spanish & German. Rising With A Distant Dawn was translated into French; under the title, Le lever à l'aube lointaine, 2013.

Red River Review nominated David's poems for Pushcart Prizes in 2012, and David's poetry has appeared in over a 160 publications in 16 countries. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

 

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Published

2017-12-06

How to Cite

Groulx, D. (2017). Lockbolted Letters to Turbo. Transmotion, 3(2), 161–167. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.408

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017)

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Creative

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