D.A. Lockhart
@dalockhart.bsky.social
Writer. Publisher. Lenape. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Author of North of Middle Island (Kegedonce Press, 2023) & Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). he/him
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D.A. Lockhart
@dalockhart.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Book announcement: I am ecstatic to be back home with Kegedonce Press for the next big poetic romp across turtle island. My collection Commonwealth will be ambling into the world bison style in no time at all. Spring 2025.
#indigenous #poetry #books #canlit #writing #indiana #comingsoon
#indigenous #poetry #books #canlit #writing #indiana #comingsoon
As follow up to the post about using Indigenous cultural symbols to promote non-Indigenous events: curator told me that they know best (non-native) and that I could consign some books of mine to sell to make up for it. Pretty gross. Par for 3 centuries of settler occupation.
April 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As follow up to the post about using Indigenous cultural symbols to promote non-Indigenous events: curator told me that they know best (non-native) and that I could consign some books of mine to sell to make up for it. Pretty gross. Par for 3 centuries of settler occupation.
Cracking 70F in Waawiiyaatanong. Perfect day for MF Doom and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Warm Spring Afternoon. Ignoring the burning world for a few hours. Find your joy, y'all. Survival is only so much.
April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cracking 70F in Waawiiyaatanong. Perfect day for MF Doom and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Warm Spring Afternoon. Ignoring the burning world for a few hours. Find your joy, y'all. Survival is only so much.
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"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune"
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
April 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune"
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
Can't believe that I have to still say this in 2025: Our culture is not your costume or sales prop. If you are holding event and you have no Indigenous people involved in the event, don't use a medicine wheel as your backdrop.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
April 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Can't believe that I have to still say this in 2025: Our culture is not your costume or sales prop. If you are holding event and you have no Indigenous people involved in the event, don't use a medicine wheel as your backdrop.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
Absolutely floored by this thoughtful and in-depth review of Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press). My newest collection is still not officially out in the world and in our trying contemporary times, making space for reconciliation and healing of our land is so critical.
#writing #books #poetry #canlit
#writing #books #poetry #canlit
April 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Back at it again, my socials. Here is a preview of the newest essay about CliFi, Indigenous literature, and how we imagine Futurisms with Min Sterling's Camp Zero at its heat. Read more at substack. Follow along.
#substack #radio #essays #clifi #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #books
#substack #radio #essays #clifi #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #books
March 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Big news: my new short fiction collection, Pishkok at the Dearborn Heights National Coney Island, has received project funding from Ontario Arts Council. This funding will help me to complete a first complete draft of the book.
#writing #books #shortfiction #grants #newwork #ontario #canlit
#writing #books #shortfiction #grants #newwork #ontario #canlit
March 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Honest, one of the strangest new habits we've adopted this year is switching out US/American Beef for Australian Kangaroo. Carbon footprint sucks. Although Aussies are kin, so that's a plus. The pastas and chilis and the like are a lot more tastee. Strange year we're having.
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Honest, one of the strangest new habits we've adopted this year is switching out US/American Beef for Australian Kangaroo. Carbon footprint sucks. Although Aussies are kin, so that's a plus. The pastas and chilis and the like are a lot more tastee. Strange year we're having.
Wanishi,
A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada.
#writing #plr #canlit
A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada.
#writing #plr #canlit
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Been away for bit, spinning vinyl and putting pen/ink to paper, and taking in some wrestling to finish off this new Bret Hart/Al Purdy poem. Let me say this: Wrestling is absolutely a framework for a rooted, cross-cultural poetics. Will have to write it all down. But it's there.
#poetry #writing
#poetry #writing
February 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Sneak peek from Issue 43 of Send My Love to Anyone--a poem from @dalockhart.bsky.social's new poetry collection Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press!)
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Nations and borders organize wealth and power against those same people they demand wave their pretty multicoloured rags...
Poetry | D.A. Lockhart | Issue 43
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February 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Sneak peek from Issue 43 of Send My Love to Anyone--a poem from @dalockhart.bsky.social's new poetry collection Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press!)
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...
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Blows my mind that neither CBC nor countless Non Natives can wrap their heads and actions around the fact that Thomas King is not Indigenous. What is going to take?
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
February 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Blows my mind that neither CBC nor countless Non Natives can wrap their heads and actions around the fact that Thomas King is not Indigenous. What is going to take?
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
Honoured to have North of Middle Island reviewed in the Seaboard Review. Wanishi to Dr. Robinson for taking the time to talk about this strange book.
“It is better to dream than to face the darkness.”
My latest review for @theseaboardreview.ca: A look at @dalockhart.bsky.social “North of Middle Island”.
(The delightful tall tale, “Piper”, is still making me .) Wanìshi ta!
#Poetry #Indigenous
My latest review for @theseaboardreview.ca: A look at @dalockhart.bsky.social “North of Middle Island”.
(The delightful tall tale, “Piper”, is still making me .) Wanìshi ta!
#Poetry #Indigenous
North of Middle Island by D.A. Lockhart
Poetry Review by Bryn Robinson
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February 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Honoured to have North of Middle Island reviewed in the Seaboard Review. Wanishi to Dr. Robinson for taking the time to talk about this strange book.
Been cleaning up these John Prince Centos today and this had led me down many a strange rabbit hole. Most recent one is writing up small bio for Lord Cathcart, 2nd Earl of Cathcart, who was in Montreal. Decolonizing his stuff too.
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
February 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Been cleaning up these John Prince Centos today and this had led me down many a strange rabbit hole. Most recent one is writing up small bio for Lord Cathcart, 2nd Earl of Cathcart, who was in Montreal. Decolonizing his stuff too.
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
Wrapping an essay about being Lenape and witnessing the total eclipse from a American homestead on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. A piece of mythologies, borders, and the lake that supports us all. Submission this week.
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Wrapping an essay about being Lenape and witnessing the total eclipse from a American homestead on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. A piece of mythologies, borders, and the lake that supports us all. Submission this week.
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
Thrilled to announce that my Indigi-Scifi Novel What Lies Beneath has received an Ontario Arts Council work-in-progress project grant. This funding will enable me to finish the manuscript and revisions to this exciting me endeavor in storytelling and writing for me.
#writing #books #scifi #grants
#writing #books #scifi #grants
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Strange breakthrough in writing this evening. Hit the anchor poem, the final poem, for a grant project I was wrapping up. Hot lyric action at the ONroute outside Woodstock, ON on the 401 makes this night a wrap.
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
January 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Strange breakthrough in writing this evening. Hit the anchor poem, the final poem, for a grant project I was wrapping up. Hot lyric action at the ONroute outside Woodstock, ON on the 401 makes this night a wrap.
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
Been organizing and listening my vinyl library today. And definitely feeling that we lose so much by the Spotify algorithm. The joy of collection to what you find, owning it, physically have to start and stop it. Music as an act not a formless commodity. Remembering joy.
#music #vinyl #listening
#music #vinyl #listening
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Been organizing and listening my vinyl library today. And definitely feeling that we lose so much by the Spotify algorithm. The joy of collection to what you find, owning it, physically have to start and stop it. Music as an act not a formless commodity. Remembering joy.
#music #vinyl #listening
#music #vinyl #listening
Commonwealth makes the Quill & Quire spring short fiction & poetry preview. Get ready for spring to arrive to our returned lyric Indigenous Midwest. Stat tuned for previews and launch details.
#books #canlit #poetry #indigenous #comingsoon #writing
#books #canlit #poetry #indigenous #comingsoon #writing
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Commonwealth makes the Quill & Quire spring short fiction & poetry preview. Get ready for spring to arrive to our returned lyric Indigenous Midwest. Stat tuned for previews and launch details.
#books #canlit #poetry #indigenous #comingsoon #writing
#books #canlit #poetry #indigenous #comingsoon #writing
Lailuwàn, mid-winter in Unami Lenape, a season of stories, a season in which we tend to talk about anything but the weather & anything but what is actually going on around us. A season where, post-holiday, post-family, community and connection falters.
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#writing
Darkest of Seasons: What Light May Come
This is lailuwàn, mid-winter in Unami Lenape, a season of stories, a season in which we tend to talk about anything but the weather and anything but what is actually going on around us. A season wh…
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January 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Lailuwàn, mid-winter in Unami Lenape, a season of stories, a season in which we tend to talk about anything but the weather & anything but what is actually going on around us. A season where, post-holiday, post-family, community and connection falters.
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#writing
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#writing
Following the cold and dark days of winter, spring shall surely arrive. And with it this new poetry collection, Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press) Get ready for an Indigenous mediation on history, migration, the American Midwest, and endurance.
#booksky #books #coverreveal #indigenous #writing #poetry
#booksky #books #coverreveal #indigenous #writing #poetry
January 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Following the cold and dark days of winter, spring shall surely arrive. And with it this new poetry collection, Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press) Get ready for an Indigenous mediation on history, migration, the American Midwest, and endurance.
#booksky #books #coverreveal #indigenous #writing #poetry
#booksky #books #coverreveal #indigenous #writing #poetry
Wëli katënami! (Happy Birthday) to the great Canadian poet and writer Al Purdy. Alfred Wellington Purdy was born on this day in 1918 in Wooler, Ontario His work is an inspiration for myself and countless others across Canada and the world.
#poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #canlit #canada #books
#poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #canlit #canada #books
December 30, 2024 at 10:50 PM