Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Gregory Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.A Métis of Cree, European and Jewish descent, Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. He has since published five further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Winnipeg.In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver, and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,Openly gay, Scofield identified as Two-Spirited early in his career, later choosing to identify as gay due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.He is currently an assistant professor of English literature at Laurentian University."@en }
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- Gregory_Scofield abstract "Gregory Scofield (born July 20, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.A Métis of Cree, European and Jewish descent, Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. He has since published five further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir. He has also served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Winnipeg.In addition to his writing Scofield has been a social worker dealing with street youth in Vancouver, and has taught First Nations and Métis Literature at Brandon University and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,Openly gay, Scofield identified as Two-Spirited early in his career, later choosing to identify as gay due to his lack of training in Cree spiritual tradition.He was the subject of a documentary film, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, in 2007.He is currently an assistant professor of English literature at Laurentian University.".