D.A. Lockhart
@dalockhart.bsky.social
Writer. Lenape. Independent Indigenous Scholar. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). Leaf Counter (Frontenac House, 2025) he/him.
Been reviewing my Works in Progress, trying to figure out what goes out next into the completion queue. Looks like a toss-up between a short-fiction mss (Shift Change) and an Indigenous historical fiction novel (Waters That Divide). Either way, good chance of a fiction/prose pivot in 2026.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Been reviewing my Works in Progress, trying to figure out what goes out next into the completion queue. Looks like a toss-up between a short-fiction mss (Shift Change) and an Indigenous historical fiction novel (Waters That Divide). Either way, good chance of a fiction/prose pivot in 2026.
#writing
#writing
The ghosts of waterways, the markers of lost towns, the medicine we leave behind, is etched in water, frozen or free.
Any season is the right season for books. But the spirit moons in these last months of year call for them more strongly.
#indigenous #poetry #books #writing #reading #midwest
Any season is the right season for books. But the spirit moons in these last months of year call for them more strongly.
#indigenous #poetry #books #writing #reading #midwest
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Flow into a new season in one of Canada’s most celebrated literary landscapes, with Leaf Counter. A lyric decolonial romp through the Ontario’s famed Prince Edward County, Leaf Counter draws us through the poetics of the land and the struggles of the poet as decolonizer
#books #indigenous #poetry
#books #indigenous #poetry
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Flow into a new season in one of Canada’s most celebrated literary landscapes, with Leaf Counter. A lyric decolonial romp through the Ontario’s famed Prince Edward County, Leaf Counter draws us through the poetics of the land and the struggles of the poet as decolonizer
#books #indigenous #poetry
#books #indigenous #poetry
Great news for my new science fiction novel, After the Stars Fell. The project has received project funding from @canada.council. This funding will help me to complete this new book in the interconnected scifi universe I am currently working through.
#books #canada #writers #grants #indigenous
#books #canada #writers #grants #indigenous
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Great news for my new science fiction novel, After the Stars Fell. The project has received project funding from @canada.council. This funding will help me to complete this new book in the interconnected scifi universe I am currently working through.
#books #canada #writers #grants #indigenous
#books #canada #writers #grants #indigenous
And to celebrate the return here, why not a new essay up on the substack.
#substack #oldtv #essays #southwalkerville #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #scifi #detroit
#substack #oldtv #essays #southwalkerville #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #scifi #detroit
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
And to celebrate the return here, why not a new essay up on the substack.
#substack #oldtv #essays #southwalkerville #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #scifi #detroit
#substack #oldtv #essays #southwalkerville #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #scifi #detroit
After a crazy few months that saw us sell and buy a house, move, myself publish two new poetry collections, and witness the grand fall of the pretendian Thomas King, I am back on this platform. And looking forward to it. Hello y'all.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
After a crazy few months that saw us sell and buy a house, move, myself publish two new poetry collections, and witness the grand fall of the pretendian Thomas King, I am back on this platform. And looking forward to it. Hello y'all.
As follow up to the post about using Indigenous cultural symbols to promote non-Indigenous events: curator told me that they know best (non-native) and that I could consign some books of mine to sell to make up for it. Pretty gross. Par for 3 centuries of settler occupation.
April 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As follow up to the post about using Indigenous cultural symbols to promote non-Indigenous events: curator told me that they know best (non-native) and that I could consign some books of mine to sell to make up for it. Pretty gross. Par for 3 centuries of settler occupation.
Cracking 70F in Waawiiyaatanong. Perfect day for MF Doom and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Warm Spring Afternoon. Ignoring the burning world for a few hours. Find your joy, y'all. Survival is only so much.
April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cracking 70F in Waawiiyaatanong. Perfect day for MF Doom and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Warm Spring Afternoon. Ignoring the burning world for a few hours. Find your joy, y'all. Survival is only so much.
Reposted by D.A. Lockhart
"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune"
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
April 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune"
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
Can't believe that I have to still say this in 2025: Our culture is not your costume or sales prop. If you are holding event and you have no Indigenous people involved in the event, don't use a medicine wheel as your backdrop.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
April 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Can't believe that I have to still say this in 2025: Our culture is not your costume or sales prop. If you are holding event and you have no Indigenous people involved in the event, don't use a medicine wheel as your backdrop.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
#yqg #indigenous #hottips.
Absolutely floored by this thoughtful and in-depth review of Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press). My newest collection is still not officially out in the world and in our trying contemporary times, making space for reconciliation and healing of our land is so critical.
#writing #books #poetry #canlit
#writing #books #poetry #canlit
April 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Back at it again, my socials. Here is a preview of the newest essay about CliFi, Indigenous literature, and how we imagine Futurisms with Min Sterling's Camp Zero at its heat. Read more at substack. Follow along.
#substack #radio #essays #clifi #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #books
#substack #radio #essays #clifi #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #books
March 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Big news: my new short fiction collection, Pishkok at the Dearborn Heights National Coney Island, has received project funding from Ontario Arts Council. This funding will help me to complete a first complete draft of the book.
#writing #books #shortfiction #grants #newwork #ontario #canlit
#writing #books #shortfiction #grants #newwork #ontario #canlit
March 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Honest, one of the strangest new habits we've adopted this year is switching out US/American Beef for Australian Kangaroo. Carbon footprint sucks. Although Aussies are kin, so that's a plus. The pastas and chilis and the like are a lot more tastee. Strange year we're having.
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Honest, one of the strangest new habits we've adopted this year is switching out US/American Beef for Australian Kangaroo. Carbon footprint sucks. Although Aussies are kin, so that's a plus. The pastas and chilis and the like are a lot more tastee. Strange year we're having.
Wanishi,
A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada.
#writing #plr #canlit
A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada.
#writing #plr #canlit
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Been away for bit, spinning vinyl and putting pen/ink to paper, and taking in some wrestling to finish off this new Bret Hart/Al Purdy poem. Let me say this: Wrestling is absolutely a framework for a rooted, cross-cultural poetics. Will have to write it all down. But it's there.
#poetry #writing
#poetry #writing
February 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reposted by D.A. Lockhart
Sneak peek from Issue 43 of Send My Love to Anyone--a poem from @dalockhart.bsky.social's new poetry collection Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press!)
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...
Nations and borders organize wealth and power against those same people they demand wave their pretty multicoloured rags...
Poetry | D.A. Lockhart | Issue 43
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February 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Sneak peek from Issue 43 of Send My Love to Anyone--a poem from @dalockhart.bsky.social's new poetry collection Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press!)
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...
Blows my mind that neither CBC nor countless Non Natives can wrap their heads and actions around the fact that Thomas King is not Indigenous. What is going to take?
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
February 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Blows my mind that neither CBC nor countless Non Natives can wrap their heads and actions around the fact that Thomas King is not Indigenous. What is going to take?
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
#writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit
Honoured to have North of Middle Island reviewed in the Seaboard Review. Wanishi to Dr. Robinson for taking the time to talk about this strange book.
“It is better to dream than to face the darkness.”
My latest review for @theseaboardreview.ca: A look at @dalockhart.bsky.social “North of Middle Island”.
(The delightful tall tale, “Piper”, is still making me .) Wanìshi ta!
#Poetry #Indigenous
My latest review for @theseaboardreview.ca: A look at @dalockhart.bsky.social “North of Middle Island”.
(The delightful tall tale, “Piper”, is still making me .) Wanìshi ta!
#Poetry #Indigenous
North of Middle Island by D.A. Lockhart
Poetry Review by Bryn Robinson
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February 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Honoured to have North of Middle Island reviewed in the Seaboard Review. Wanishi to Dr. Robinson for taking the time to talk about this strange book.
Been cleaning up these John Prince Centos today and this had led me down many a strange rabbit hole. Most recent one is writing up small bio for Lord Cathcart, 2nd Earl of Cathcart, who was in Montreal. Decolonizing his stuff too.
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
February 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Been cleaning up these John Prince Centos today and this had led me down many a strange rabbit hole. Most recent one is writing up small bio for Lord Cathcart, 2nd Earl of Cathcart, who was in Montreal. Decolonizing his stuff too.
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
#writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous
Wrapping an essay about being Lenape and witnessing the total eclipse from a American homestead on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. A piece of mythologies, borders, and the lake that supports us all. Submission this week.
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Wrapping an essay about being Lenape and witnessing the total eclipse from a American homestead on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. A piece of mythologies, borders, and the lake that supports us all. Submission this week.
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
#writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes
Thrilled to announce that my Indigi-Scifi Novel What Lies Beneath has received an Ontario Arts Council work-in-progress project grant. This funding will enable me to finish the manuscript and revisions to this exciting me endeavor in storytelling and writing for me.
#writing #books #scifi #grants
#writing #books #scifi #grants
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Strange breakthrough in writing this evening. Hit the anchor poem, the final poem, for a grant project I was wrapping up. Hot lyric action at the ONroute outside Woodstock, ON on the 401 makes this night a wrap.
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
January 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Strange breakthrough in writing this evening. Hit the anchor poem, the final poem, for a grant project I was wrapping up. Hot lyric action at the ONroute outside Woodstock, ON on the 401 makes this night a wrap.
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
#writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork
Been organizing and listening my vinyl library today. And definitely feeling that we lose so much by the Spotify algorithm. The joy of collection to what you find, owning it, physically have to start and stop it. Music as an act not a formless commodity. Remembering joy.
#music #vinyl #listening
#music #vinyl #listening
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Been organizing and listening my vinyl library today. And definitely feeling that we lose so much by the Spotify algorithm. The joy of collection to what you find, owning it, physically have to start and stop it. Music as an act not a formless commodity. Remembering joy.
#music #vinyl #listening
#music #vinyl #listening