By Lisa Goudy
For poet Katherena Vermette, the best part about poetry is how expressive and open it can be.
“Poetry is my first love. Poetry doesn’t
concern itself with anything extraneous,” she said. “It’s really
specific. It really
goes right to the point. It’s a very different feel than
traditional storytelling or fiction writing, which kind of is more
of a journey, but really I like everything that I write and that’s
why I write in multi-genres.”
Vermette, who won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, will be at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words in July.
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