Welcome to The Hummingbird Podcast

Two friends use poetry to chat about creativity, process, and the mysteries of life.

Catherine Graham is an award-winning writer and creative writing teacher living in Toronto. Jessica Outram is an award-winning writer, poet laureate emeritus, and educator living in Peterborough.

A new episode is released every two weeks on Sundays!

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Land Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that this podcast is recorded on the traditional territories of many nations including the Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We continue our journey to strengthen our understanding of our Treaty relationship and of how to move forward together in a good way.