New Poets of Native Nations by Erdrich, Heid E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Twenty-One Poets for the Twenty-First Century Tacey M. Atsitty

Anasazi Nightsong Downpour Paper Water Elegy for Yucca Fruit Woman Hole through the Rock

Layli Long Soldier

38 Whereas I Did Not Desire in Childhood Whereas Re-solution’s an Act Obligations 1 Obligations 2

Tommy Pico

from IRL from Nature Poem from Junk

Margaret Noodin

Waawiindamojig / The Promisers Okanan / Bones Winiiam Aagimeke / William Making Snowshoes Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the Peepers Say Jiikimaadizi / A Joyful Life Mazinbii’amawaan / Sending Messages

Laura Da’

A Mighty Pulverizing Machine The Haskell Marching Band Passive Voice Quarter Strain

Gwen Nell Westerman

Owotaŋna Sececa Linear Process Genetic Code Quantum Theory Dakota Homecoming Theory Doesn’t Live Here Undivided Interest

Jennifer Elise Foerster

Leaving Tulsa Pottery Lessons I Birthmark Chimera Blood Moon Triptych Canyon

Natalie Diaz

Dome Riddle Other Small Thundering American Arithmetic The First Water Is the Body

Trevino L. Brings Plenty

For the Sake of Beauty The Sound of It Part Gravel, Part Water, All Indian Blizzard South Dakota Northeast Portland Not Just Anybody Can Have One Red-ish Brown-ish Plasmic Kiln Song Syntax Cycle

dg nanouk okpik

Warming Her/My Arctic Corpse Whale The Weight of the Arch Distributes the Girth of the Other A Year Dot Dog Moon Night at Noatak She Travels

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Blackwater Stole My Pronoun In the Cut What Do They Know of Suffering, Who Eat of Pineapples Yearround As the Owl Augurs Stonewall to Standing Rock Horse Vision The Bear and the Salmon When It Rains It Pours The Bear Was Born

Sy Hoahwah

Anchor-Screws of Culture Toward Mount Scott Ever Since I Can Remember What Is Left Before We Are Eaten Glitter Hinterlands Hillbilly Leviathan

Craig Santos Perez

from Lisiensan Ga’lago from The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue] Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I Sihek] Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan] (First Trimester) (Papa and Wākea) (I Tinituhon)

Gordon Henry, Jr.

Simple Four Part Directions for Making Indian Lit How Soon Dear Sonny: Among the Almost Decolonized The Mute Scribe Recalls Some Talking Circle

Brandy Nālani McDougall

The Petroglyphs at Olowalu On Cooking Captain Cook Pele‘aihonua Papatuanuku This Island on Which I Love You Genesis

M. L. Smoker

Casualties Crosscurrent Equilibrium We are the ones Heart Butte, Montana

LeAnne Howe

A Duck’s Tune Finders Keepers: Aboriginal Responses to European Colonization Ballast Catafalque Catafalque II The Rope Seethes

Cedar Sigo

Now I’m a Woman Thrones Green Rainbow Song Things to Do in Suquamish Taken Care Of Aquarelle Light Unburied, Unchained Double Vision

Karenne Wood

Amoroleck’s Words My Standard Response In Memory of Shame Abracadabra, an Abcedarian Bartolomé de las Casas, 1542 The Poet I Wish I Was

Eric Gansworth

Speaking through Our Nations’ Teeth It Goes Something Like This Repatriating Ourselves Snagging the Eye from Curtis A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function … Bee

Janet McAdams

The Hands of the Taino Leaving the Old Gods Ghazal of Body from “The Collectors” Tiger on the Shoulder Hunters, Gatherers Earthling

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