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unusual facts about Pauline Johnson


Christos Hatzis

It is based on Pauline Johnson, a Canadian writer and poet, and is the first commission ever undertaken by City Opera Vancouver.


Jeannette Armstrong

As a teenager, Armstrong continued to publish poetry and develop her literary voice by listening to and reading works by Aboriginal authors such as Pauline Johnson and Chief Dan George, who she identifies as her early influences.


see also

Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream

It included: Harry Smith/Herman Melville, Joan Larkin/Emily Dickinson, Zizwe Ngafua/Paul Laurence Dunbar, Enid Dame/Adah Isaacs Menken, Maurice Kenny/Pauline Johnson, Richard Davidson/Walt Whitman, Ellen Marie Bissert/Alice Carey, and Donald Lev/Edgar Allan Poe.