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

Main Navigation

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

Poetry

Student 2020

Writing Contest Honorable Mentions

a field of insect-i-cides

By Nancy Beauregard Posted on August 21, 2020 Posted in Poetry, Student 2020, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
a field of insect-i-cides

“beneath umbrellas of drooping purple petals, sticks with triangular heads hold curved handles, thin membranes stretch for tiny legs to back—stroke . . .”

Read more ›

Díí ’Óólyé, This Is What It Means

By Michael Coan ’Ák’eeshchí Posted on August 21, 2020 Posted in Poetry, Student 2020, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Díí ’Óólyé, This Is What It Means

“Shí’ee’ ’éí łeezh bee łíbá sílį́į́’ lá. My clothes became adorned with dust and dirt. ’Áko t’óó nízhónígo shí ’éé’ bík’ídíídláád. The Sun ribbons beautifully adorned my clothes.”

Read more ›

Digital Black Hole

By Keanu Jones Posted on August 21, 2020 Posted in Poetry, Student 2020
Digital Black Hole

“Your hollow rib cage echoes in silence as you float into the endless digital stream.”

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 ›

Quercus

By Vivian M. Carroll Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2020, Writing Contest Winners
Quercus

“With words about savages, standing too long in the sun to know what’s good for them. My mother stands strong. I raise myself higher, in proud nickel likeness.”

Read more ›

Old Dogs of Taos

By Nelson Alburquenque Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2020, Writing Contest Winners
Old Dogs of Taos

“Old dogs of Taos, dream off wounds – together they sleep in shade under clouds, dozing off sunshine in the long shadow of the old earth house.”

Read more ›

Gimaamaaminaan Aki (Mother Earth)

By Awanigiizhik (Roderick) Bruce Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2020, Writing Contest Winners
<em>Gimaamaaminaan Aki</em> (Mother Earth)

“In the beginning, she gifted us life-giving waters. Swelling from underneath, she gave birth to the water panthers and horned serpents.”

Read more ›

Tasty Cake

By Jesse Short Bull Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in Poetry, Student 2020
Tasty Cake

“Gram made a humongous cake which laid out in a thousand rains. Thick ribbons of water, icing flowing down ruinous fringes of receding prairie.”

Read more ›

Forgotten Gender

By Garrison Bennett Posted on August 11, 2019 Posted in Poetry, Student 2019, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Forgotten Gender
Self Reflection by Casandra Artichoker of Sinte Gleska University

Gender comes and goes in different forms. Don’t feel lost or bad because this is what you are. To the ones that tried to force us out or forget us; you thought wrong. We are here to stay, together we …

Forgotten Gender Read more »

Not Your TV Indian

By Miranda Lauren Saunders Posted on August 11, 2019 Posted in Poetry, Student 2019, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Not Your TV Indian
Cansasa Wakan, Keep Tobacco Sacred by Marissa Irizarry of the Institute of American Indian Arts

Why are we the only ones who have to prove we exist? So many of us equate our Indianness with our blood quantum Our self-worth hanging on the edge of that number Like show horses or breeding dogs An imaginary …

Not Your TV Indian Read more »

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 19 Next

Thank you to our 2020 sponsors

RSS CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

  • Senior Accountant
  • Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies @ CSUSM
  • Assistant Vice President of Human Resources and Institutional Equity
  • Associate Director of Creative Writing
  • Visitor Outreach Coordinator
  • Content & Social Media Coordinator

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)

  • Membership & Submission Guidelines
  • Student Writing, Art, and Film Contest
  • Subscribe to TCJ
  • Order Back Issues
  • Advertise/Sponsor
  • Donate
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Facebook Twitter Pinterest
© 2021 TCJ Student