January Rogers
Canadian First Nations poet
January Rogers (born 1963) is a First Nations Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations in Ontario. Her work includes poetry and spoken-word performance poetry.
Early life
Janet Marie Rogers was born in Vancouver. She moved to Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1994.
Career
First working as a visual artist, she began writing in 1996. Rogers moved to the Six Nations reserve in June 2019, where she founded Ojistoh Publishing and launched a Six Nations Inaugural Literary Award (SNILA).
Rogers has hosted the radio programs Native Waves Radio on CFUV and Tribal Clefs on CBC Radio One Victoria. She produced the radio documentaries Bring Your Drum: 50 Years of Indigenous Protest Music Resonating Reconciliation, which received awards for Best Radio at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. She produced a 6-part radio documentary titled NDNs on the Airwaves 2016 and a short doc of the same title with her media team 2Ro Media.
From January 2012 to November 2014, Rogers was City of Victoria's Poet Laureate.
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