Sarain Frank Soonias
Biography
Sarain Frank Soonias is Cree and Ojibwe and some settler. He began writing poetry in 2020, and has since branched out to explore theatre and filmmaking as well. His poetry collection All Wrong Horses On Fire That Go Away In The Rain was written during a breakdown while attending therapy through a TRC initiative for children and grandchildren of Residential School and 60’s Scoop survivors. He resides in Calgary, Alberta.
Micro-interview
When I was a little kid I read a book called There Is My People Sleeping by Sarain Stump. My favourite poem is called There Is My People Sleeping from that book.
I had written few stanzas here and there during my 30's. I'd feel inspired and scribble for a bit. I don't think of myself as a poet, but I've always appreciated writers who could string a few thoughtful words together.
To me poetry reads true when it is distilled down to the purest form of the writers expression. So vulnerability is at a premium. For me the "job" is letting go of conscious thought so that my spirit feels safe to share. Because my spirit knows better. The way a child at play doesn't need to cultivate a singleness of purpose. They just go with the flow of something timeless that knows better so that they don't have to.
Come Up From the Fields Father by Walt Whitman.
