I Would Like to Say Thank You

I Would Like to Say Thank YouNew poems from award winning storyteller and poet Joseph Dandurand. Building on his legacy as a skilled storyteller, Dandurand continues to write about trauma, love, grief and forgiveness. These poems are about the streets, the East Side, self pity, spirits and Dandurand's people, the Kwantlen. As the jury of the 2022 Latner Writers' Trust Award wrote, "his quotidian reflections read like parables, with startling economy." After putting this

ironically

and eventual loss of his mother that permeated his adolescence

and becoming propertyless

archival work

and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom for his people

Kyle Edwards

Join Paul and his teacher Mrs

Crazy Horse was the last of the Lakota to surrender his people to the US army

Through these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice

reflecting the growing interest in a niche cuisine that is rapidly moving into the mainstream to become the "next big thing" among food trends

he has answered the call of the tobacco that always seems to find him and never seems to cease

a persistent prejudice that is largely misunderstood or misrepresented by outsiders