Duncan Mercredi
{{Short description|Cree writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba}}
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| birth_date = 1951
| birth_place = Grand Rapids, Manitoba
| occupation = poet
| period = 1990s–present
| nationality = Canadian
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Duncan Mercredi (born 1951){{cite book|title=mahikan ka onot: The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|date=2020}} is a Cree and Métis poet from Winnipeg, Manitoba.{{cite web|title=Duncan Mercredi's 'weird way of looking at life and land' collected in retrospective|publisher=Prairie Books Now|url=https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/duncan-mercredis-weird-way-of-looking-at-life-and-land-collected-in-retrospective|accessdate=May 21, 2021}}
Life and career
Mercredi was born in Misipawistik Grand Rapids, Manitoba, where he grew up. At sixteen he moved to Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, where he attended high school and moved to Winnipeg shortly thereafter.{{cite book|title=mahikan ka onot: The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|date=2020}}{{Cite news |date=May 23, 2017 |title=Spirit of the Wolf |work=CBC Books |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/spirit-of-the-wolf-1.4128163 |access-date=November 30, 2023}}
Mercredi's mother was a residential school Survivor, which formed the inspiration for many of the poems in his most recent book, 215.{{Cite web |date=April 23, 2022 |title=In 215, Duncan Mercredi uses poetry to mourn the lives lost and forever changed by residential schools |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-aug-20-2022-1.6423746/in-215-duncan-mercredi-uses-poetry-to-mourn-the-lives-lost-and-forever-changed-by-residential-schools-1.6423792 |access-date=November 30, 2023 |website=CBC}}
In 2020, Mercredi became the second (after Di Brandt) Poet Laureate of Winnipeg.{{cite news|title=Winnipeg's new Poet Laureate named by Arts Council|publisher=Winnipeg Sun|url=https://winnipegsun.com/news/local-news/winnipegs-new-poet-laureate-named-by-arts-council|accessdate=May 21, 2021}} In 2021, he won the Manitowapow Award at the Manitoba Book Awards.{{cite web|title=2021 winners|publisher=Manitoba Book Awards|url=https://manitobabookawards.ca|accessdate=May 21, 2021}}
Bibliography
- Spirit of the Wolf: Raise Your Voice (Pemmican Publications, 1991)
- Dreams of the Wolf in the City (1992)
- Wolf and Shadows (1995)
- Duke of Windsor: Wolf Sings the Blues (1997)
- mahikan ka onot: The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi (2020){{cite news |title=Meet Winnipeg's new poet laureate |publisher=Winnipeg Free Press |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/metro/Meet-Winnipegs-new-poet-laureate-568872351.html |accessdate=May 21, 2021}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/M/mahikan-ka-onot |title=mahikan ka onot}}
- 215 (2022){{Cite web |title=215 by Duncan Mercredi |url=https://winnipegarts.ca/news/215-duncan-mercredi |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=winnipegarts.ca |language=en}}{{Citation |title=Cemeteries, Unmarked Graves and Potter's Field |date=2009 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412972031.n58 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience |access-date=2023-12-01 |place=2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States |publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc.|doi=10.4135/9781412972031.n58 |isbn=9781412951784 }}
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Category:Writers from Winnipeg
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
Category:Municipal poets laureate in Canada
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:20th-century First Nations writers
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century First Nations writers
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