↓ Skip to Main Content
  • TCJ
  • Tribal College Press
  • Subscribe
  • Job Board
TCJ Student

Main Navigation

  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
    • Creative Nonfiction
    • Guest Editorials
    • Research
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Slams
  • Art/Photography
  • Film
    • Film 2021
    • Film 2020
  • Blogs
  • Writer’s Corner
  • Contest entry
Home › Archive for Poetry

Editor's Choice - Poetry

Poetry

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…”

Read more ›

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…”

Read more ›

(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 …

(I Am) Her Glittering Existence Read more »

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, …

hūzíwí Read more »

Ogimaag Mitigoog*

By Lucinda Wentworth Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2021
Ogimaag Mitigoog*
Placid Dusk by Jenae Miller of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

Height infused by your majesty Skin rough but breakable or smooth like marble baby Arms stretched out for sun or bent to the earth carefree   Tiny leaves for fingers full of veins and light grasp the rays Make them …

Ogimaag Mitigoog* Read more »

the witch

By Sarah Chiago Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
the witch

ho’ok lived here stitching fire into skin phoenix was a sunlit city, she wanted to spit at it every time the sun kissed her ho’ok worked at social services on the rez drove on clay colored freeways as dawn broke …

the witch Read more »

Saturday Night Mania

By Debbie Haddow Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Saturday Night Mania

It’s Saturday night in the psych ward, half past witching hour, lights switched off to phantom black. The psych ward becomes a cityscape, a night skyline in a sterile hospital. When I turn the power on, the corridors brighten, a …

Saturday Night Mania Read more »

The TCJ Student Virtual Poetry Slam

By TCJ Staff Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in Poetry
The TCJ Student Virtual Poetry Slam

TCJ Student partnered with Thunder inDIGIfest for the 2021 AIHEC poetry slam. Held virtually over Zoom, the slam was an experiment in the making.

Read more ›

Her Hands

By Shyrelle D. Sloan Posted on February 22, 2021 Posted in Editor's Choice - Poetry, Poetry
Her Hands
Sheep by Talhela Daw of Dine College.

Her hands are smooth and rough,
like rusted metal in the rain.
Her heart is soft, like blue corn mush
on a Saturday morning.

Read more ›

Untitled

By Dana Peterman Posted on August 21, 2020 Posted in Poetry, Student 2020
Untitled

“Beautiful skies, red orange ascending into blue, over mirror like waters . . .”

Read more ›

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 20 Next

THANK YOU SPONSORS!

TOUCHING HOME eBOOK

Touching Home ebook

An eBook featuring stories and poems by tribal college students

Touching Home ebookBuy the Kindle version on Amazon.com ($9.99)

Touching Home ebookBuy the Nook version at Barnes & Noble ($9.99)

  • Student Writing, Art, and Film Contest
  • Subscribe to TCJ
  • Order Back Issues
  • Advertise/Sponsor
  • Donate
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Facebook Twitter Pinterest
© 2022 TCJ Student