Cut to Fortress Cayuga Alex Werier

Alex Werier

When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play

Translated by Potawatomi Odawa Elder and Language Keeper

Carey Price

Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl

Cut to Fortress Cayuga Alex WerierCut to Fortress by Tawahum Bige, a Lutselke Dene, Plains Cree poet who resides on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh territory (Vancouver) is a debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all