CRUSHED WILD MINT: LANGUAGE ROOTED IN LANDSCAPE

Explore some indigenous thinking mixed with a little magic as Jess Housty shares her debut poetry collection, Crushed Wild Mint.

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CRUSHED WILD MINT
December 5 at 5 pm

Jess Housty is a Haíɫzaqv parent, writer, and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella, BC.  Housty lives in unceded ancestral homelands where she works in community building, food sovereignty, and leadership development. She is a freelance contributor to The Tyee in addition to her debut poetry collection from Nightwood Editions.

Housty’s writing is enmeshed in her indigenous roots and values, “wealth is measured not by what you’ve accumulated but by what you give away.  True abundance comes from community and turning a gift into more gifts”. She demonstrates this beautifully in Sixty-Eight Plums, a surprise bag of plums appears on her doorstep and provides an opportunity for her to carry the joy forward by making jars of plum jam to leave at neighbors’ doors.