Alberta author Billy-Ray Belcourt wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize

Billy-Ray Belcourt sobbed as he accepted the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize on Thursday night, sharing his hopes that his writing can help bring about a world that Indigenous people would want to live in.
The 23-year-old of the Driftpile Cree Nation in Alberta was announced as the Canadian winner of the lucrative prize at a swanky Toronto gala for This Wound is a World, published by Frontenac House.
Belcourt, who organizers say is the youngest winner in the prize’s history, was rendered mome