Generations Re-merging - Room Magazine
Generations Re-merging Shannon Webb-Campbell Shalan Joudry artfully explores the poetic relationships between generations. Her poetry charts Mi’kmaw ancestry, identity, parenthood, and traditional teachings in her debut collection, Generations Re-merging. In “Prologue,” she writes, “Each generation must make their own / journey through a thick terrain. / How ever we got lost along the way, let us / rejoice in the healing steps that follow.” For Joudry, poetry is a mapmaker to one’s journey and an essential step in healing. In several poems, Joudry writes in her mother Mi’kmaq t...
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