Indigenous Poets Society

Indigenous Poets Society (IPS) is an Indigenous collective nurturing culture, literature, and spoken word. IPS (SK-ON) was inspired to create mihko kiskisiwin from the "Write Relations" Indigenous creative writers' Zoom circle that met during COVID. This anthology was made possible by the Region of Waterloo Upstream Fund. Kevin Wesaquate and Hope Engel help make IPS possible. Kevin (he/him), Cree from the Piapot First Nation, founded Indigenous Poets Society, and lives with his family in...See more

Indigenous Poets Society (IPS) is an Indigenous collective nurturing culture, literature, and spoken word. IPS (SK-ON) was inspired to create mihko kiskisiwin from the "Write Relations" Indigenous creative writers' Zoom circle that met during COVID. This anthology was made possible by the Region of Waterloo Upstream Fund. Kevin Wesaquate and Hope Engel help make IPS possible. Kevin (he/him), Cree from the Piapot First Nation, founded Indigenous Poets Society, and lives with his family in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hope (she/they) is the IPS's admin. They are a multiple-disabled, Two Spirit Indigenous "Femme-inist", Turtle Clan, Oklahoma Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee ancestry. They live in Kitchener, Ontario. Their first book River Bundles (2006) is an anthology from the work of the former Indigenous artists and writers collective, Plume Writers Circle. See less