Billy-Ray Belcourt
Poet, essayist, novelist, and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation; author of This Wound is a World, A History of My Brief Body, and the novel A Minor Chorus, and an associate professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 44min
10.2 Beautiful Sentences Matter. Billy-Ray Belcourt and Matt Hooley (SW)
Matt Hooley, Dartmouth scholar of Indigenous literature, and Billy-Ray Belcourt, Cree poet, novelist, and essayist, discuss A Minor Chorus and the move from poetry to an experimental novel. They explore using a singular voice to carry communal desires, Indigenous forms and pseudo-oral history, queer mothering, grief and melancholia, and how romantic intimacy and craft shape beautiful sentences.
