Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

A playlist highlighting poetry from Indigenous poets of the Americas. 

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"America, I Sing You Back"
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Coke, Allison Adelle Hedge. Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. Ed. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.

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"WHEREAS my eyes land on the shoreline..."
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Long Soldier, Layli. Whereas. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017.

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"In My Lifetime"
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Welch, James. Riding the Earthboy 40. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Rainy Dawn"
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Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems. New York: Norton, 2002.

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"Why I Hate Raisins"
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Diaz, Natalie. When My Brother Was an Aztec. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2012.

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"Jiní"
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Tohe, Laura and Stephen E Strom. Tséyi': Deep in the Rock; Reflections on Canyon de Chelly. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2005.

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"My Father's Song"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Prayer to the Pacific"
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Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1981.

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from Flood Song
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Bitsui, Sherwin. Flood Song. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2009.

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"Afternoon in Santa Fe"
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Unpublished.

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"Choir of Memory"
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Vizenor, Gerald. Almost Ashore. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2006.

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"At Risk"
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Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"When the Clay Calls"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Naranjo Morse, Nora. Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992.

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"Riuunda’ ndaya" / "Oración" / "Prayer"
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English differs slightly from published version.

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Toledo, Natalia. "Riuunda’ ndaya." Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 3 May 2024.

Toledo, Natalia. "Oración."  Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 3 May 2024.

Toledo, Natalia. "Prayer." Translated by Irma Pineda and Clare Sullivan. Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 3 May 2024. 

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Excerpt from "Shall or Will"
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Stevens, James Thomas. The Golden Book. Chattanooga, TN: SplitLevel Texts, 2021. 

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"Black Days"
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Louis, Bojan. "Black Days." Fugue, online issue 2018Web. Accessed 8 Oct. 2019.

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"Shoplifting Vienna Sausages"
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Performance piece incorporating two poems. Published versions of both poems bear the title "ginen the legends of juan malo [a malologue]." Differs from published versions.

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Perez, Craig Santos. from unincorporated territory [guma']. Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2014.

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"Estuary"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Taitano, Lehua M. Inside Me an Island. Wordtech Editions, 2018. 

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From "Junk"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Pico, Tommy. Junk. Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2018, pp. 6-7.

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"Not the intent of this desert"
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Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.

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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and granddaughter Hazel
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Paola Valenzuela
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James Welch
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Joy Harjo
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Hannah Ensor
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Leslie Marmon Silko
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Nancy Carrick Holbert
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Sherwin Bitsui
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Rodney Phillips
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Natalie Diaz
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Cybele Knowles
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Laura Tohe and Stephen E. Strom
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Sarah Kortemeier
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Simon J. Ortiz
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Luci Tapahonso
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Christine Krikliwy
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N. Scott Momaday, 1985
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Nora Naranjo Morse
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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James Thomas Stevens
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Christine Krikliwy
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Lehua M. Taitano
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Patri Hadad
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Tommy Pico
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Patri Hadad
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Ofelia Zepeda
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Paola Valenzuela
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