Treaties beyond the state: Honouring our responsibilities to each other
- Derek Walcott, "Earth". I first learned of the Nobel Prize-winning Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott while I was in graduate school at the University of Toronto. Although he taught writing at the University of Alberta and served as the university's first distinguished scholar in residence, I did not know his name until I moved away from the Prairies. As soon as I read Walcott's poetry, it made sense to me that he had resided on the Prairies. His words have spaciousness and honesty that remind me of home. I grew up and still live in Pleasant Hill, a neighbourhood on the west side of Saskat...
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