pîsim pimâcihowin / The Sun Voyage and ispîhkacâhkosak kâ-nipicik / When Stars Die
Air Date: December 7, 2022
Summary
Host Jesse Archibald-Barber shares two original short poems - about our place in the Cosmos, pîsim pimâcihowin / The Sun Voyage and ispîhk acâhkosak kâ-nipicik / When Stars Die (an excerpt). He reads both poems in Cree and then in English and discusses how the Cree language ends up shaping the English poem, bringing in new ideas in the poem itself.
SERIES
Cree Star Stories
HOST & PRODUCER
Jesse Barber
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