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Poetry

Wiingashk: Body, Mind, and Spirit

By Elisa Grossman Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Wiingashk: Body, Mind, and Spirit

Tie a piece of yarn around the top to hold together such sacred trinity. fingers lovingly embrace each strand, weave them meticulously together, dark and light shades of green shimmering in the sunlight surrender softly to the next which is …

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Poetry (poem)

By Ronnie Largo Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Poetry (poem)

no matter how fast you go… poetry becomes the long desolate highway that has no end in sight no matter how comfy you are… poetry becomes the uncomfortable feeling in your chair no matter how long you snooze… poetry becomes …

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Belts

By Kamella Bird-Romero Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Belts

femininity cinching the hips woven wide wrapping our waists round and round thick-weave wool red, green and black, braided Grandma said if you can breathe, it’s not tight enough for want of child birthing curves to flare and baby feeding …

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Growing up Coyote in the Wolf Clan

By Ibe Liebenberg Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Poetry, Student 2022, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Growing up Coyote in the Wolf Clan

All night the buzz of complaining lights keeps us employed. Our days are the drain and water circling. From the foreign places we feel labor, work being done. Cousin wolf sings about pawning love like it is inheritance. A song …

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Grandma’s Basket

By Alyssa Nakai Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Poetry, Student 2022
Grandma’s Basket

In her delicate and aged hands, thin strips of three-leaf sumac are carefully laced and woven.   Kóodęę’ hózhǫ́dóo Shitsijí’ hózhǫ́dóo Shikédęę’ hózhǫ́dóo Shikáagí, shiyaagí hozhǫ́dóo T’áá ałtso shinaagóó hózhó dóo’   In beauty I walk With beauty before me …

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The Dream Reality

By Ava Carpentier Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Poetry, Student 2022
The Dream Reality

My Grandmother came to me in dream, Nookomis, Nimaamaanaan. From beyond the horizon she flew, dark wings, pale face, closer. Darting head from East to West, her voice on high whistled for me. My arms outstretched, she lifted me, with …

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Spoonful of Navajo

By Brianna G. Reed Posted on April 25, 2022 Posted in Editor's Choice - Poetry, Poetry
Spoonful of Navajo

“Together we sit perched over the square of light, virgin mouths struggling to swallow old vowels now forced foreign, our throats snapping awkwardly over their branches but singing our way home all the same…”

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Lost in My Head

By Ellen Maldonado Posted on November 12, 2021 Posted in Poetry
Lost in My Head

“I am crying on the floor amongst my trash and scattered clothes. Pleading for my ancestors to help me…”

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(I Am) Her Glittering Existence

By Alyssa Nakai Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
(I Am) Her Glittering Existence
Turquoise, Not Diamonds by Kiana Woody of Tohono O‘odham Community College

I am from the empty canyon walls underneath and hidden I am from the place where white corn breathes prayer into the morning dawn I am from the place where yellow corn cascades pollen into the evening twilight I am …

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hūzíwí

By Nelson Alburquenque Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
hūzíwí

hūzíwí waking, spiky ivory scarlet legs emerging under silky deep burrow ancient nightmare web   hūzíwí arms rumbling, lava blood summoning as veins bulge dripping molten dread while finger bark rots fish bone and plastic hen   hūzíwí chest broadening, …

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