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This collection is a vital and important volume that shows how poetry and poetic inquiry can be part of relational, ancestral and community repair. The 23 poets who are featured in this book use their poems to bring attention to the nuances, harm and possibilities of language. They represent a variety of geographies, languages, lands, and cultures. The three sections-language, land, and belonging-sing with personal and community examples focusing on our relationality. Poetic Inquirers interested in the power of language and identities will find the work in this book to be instructive as they work through issues of reparation, indigenous rights, and meanings of community. Dr. Sandra L. Faulkner Professor of Media and Communication Affiliate Faculty Honors College/Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Bowling Green State University

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Natalie Honein is a writer, educator, and life-long learner. She has taught academic writing at universities in the Middle East for the past twenty years and holds postgraduate degrees in political science, language, and education. She is a strong advocate for narrative research and poetic inquiry. Her publications have appeared in several academic journals and books, and have explored Arab women's activism, social equity, identity, and the plight of refugees. She lives and writes in Dubai. Margaret McKeon is an outdoor educator, writer, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at St. Mary's University in Calgary Alberta. In her research and in life, as a settler person of Irish and German ancestry, she considers land relationship, ancestral knowledges and colonialism through story and poetry. Her work has been published in literary and academic journals, and book collections. She lives with her partner surrounded by mountains and rivers in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, in Treaty 7 Territory.

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