Suzanne Rancourt:
Truth: What do we do with it? Is it a new truth? An old truth? Who will it change? Or perhaps, it will change nothing. What do we do with the truths that change nothing?
As an Artist, a writer and human being, I can bear witness to these truths to acknowledge their existence, and the fact that something – an event – occurred and not only do I acknowledge and validate this truth, I will speak of this truth in a way that changes us.
As a writer, an Artist, I hope that my observations from a variety of perspectives initiates conversation about whatever the poem inspires among readers. Difficult conversations are essential to build and support any community, any relationship.
Suzanne S. Rancourt is Abenaki/Huron descent from West Central Maine, residing in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Her work appears in You Can Hear the Ocean: Anthology, Grey Borders Magazine, Synaeresis, Twist in Time, Door is a Jar Magazine, Avatar Review, New Readers Magazine, Big Pond Rumours, Women Speak-Women of Appalachia Project, Tiny Flames Press, Quiddity, River Heron Review, Shaking the Sheets, The Gyroscope Review, theSame, Young Ravens Literary Review # 8, Tupelo Press Native Voices Anthology, Bright Hill Press 25th Anniversary Anthology, Dawnland Voices 2.0 #4, Northern New England Review, Bear Review, Three Drops Press, Snapdragon Journal, mgversion2>datura, Sirsee, Slipstream, Collections of Poetry and Prose, Muddy River Poetry Review, Ginosko, Journal of Military Experience, Cimarron Review and Callaloo. Billboard in the Clouds received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award, her second book, murmurs at the gate, 2019, was published by Unsolicited Press. She is a USMC and Army Veteran and continues to serve as a Mentor for the Saratoga County Veterans’ Peer to Peer program. Ms. Rancourt is a multi modal EXAT and CASAC with an MS in psychology and an MFA in writing.
