Sarain Frank Soonias
Biographie
Sarain Frank Soonias is Cree and Ojibwe. He began writing poetry in 2020, and now focuses on acting and playwriting. His poetry collection All Wrong Horses On Fire That Go Away In The Rain was written over five months during a severe breakdown while attending therapy through a TRC initiative for children and grandchildren of Residential School and 60’s Scoop survivors. He strongly believes that the notion of colonization is poisonous for all concerned parties.
Entrevue
When I was a kid I read a book called There Are My People Sleeping by Sarain Stump.
My favourite poem was There Is My People Sleeping.
Why?
I don't remember writing poetry before I was about 30. I wrote a few stanzas over a year and posted them on IG. Beyond that I just always appreciated writers who could string a few words together and make it read powerful without needing to flex their muscles. I've never thought of myself as poet.
I think the best any of us can aspire to in general is to be authentic. I think poetry reads true when it's distilled down to the purest form of the writers expression. Something like that.
