Save Your Prayers Send Money

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Save Your Prayers Send Money boldly takes on the wellness industry, considering disability politics through the lived experience of a seventy-year-old Metis woman and recovering New Ager. Weaving intergenerational trauma and its impact on health through the author's experience of living with chronic pain and illness, these poems explore where healing might lie and how a peace might be found whether we heal or not. The weft supporting all of this is the importance of belonging, of blood memory and cellular memory reaching back to our earliest Ancestors.

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Jnna Kirton, an Icelandic and Red River Mtis poet, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Treaty 1, the Traditional Lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and the homeland of the Mtis. One of the co-founders of Indigenous Brilliance, she currently lives in New Westminster BC, the stolen land of the Hulquminum speaking peoples. Jnna graduated from the SFU Writer's Studio in 2007 and since that time has published three books of poetry. She was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouvers Mayors Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.