Billy-Ray Belcourt — Subarctica

Poetry Unbound by On Being Studios

Mar 2, 202600:17:46Arts

Will you leave this episode feeling uplifted, envious, curious, or something else entirely? Yes. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poem “Subarctica” transports you to a vividly specific time — “the coldest December / on record, I hav...

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