< >Janet Rogers
Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. Janet was born in Vancouver British Columbia January 29th 1963 and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people since 1994. She continues to stretch her abilities as a writer, working and studying in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music.
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Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. Janet was born in Vancouver British Columbia January 29th 1963 and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people since 1994. She continues to stretch her abilities as a writer, working and studying in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music.
Her literary inspiration comes from her native heritage, feminism, historical territories, human love, sexuality and spirit. Janet has many anthology credits as a writer and receives many invitations to share her performance poetry all over North America. Her first published collection of poems is titled Splitting the Heart, Ekstasis Editions 2007. Janet has collaborated with musicians as a lyricist and has read with dance troupes, creating unique segments of mixed media presentations. Janet created a video poem entitled Rightful Place and plans to do more video poetry. You can hear Janet on the air waves hosting Vancouver Island's only native radio program on CFUV 101.9fm in Victoria called Native Waves Radio and is host of a native music column entitled Tribal Clefs on CBC Radio One's program, All Points West in British Columbia every Tuesday.
Her newest spoken word CD Firewater released in June 2009 is an independent recording featuring Janets words with 5 native musicians. The collection is described as intoxicatingly honest, with vivid sound scapes and moving compositions.
