2019 AIHEC Student Conference Poetry Slam
Poetry
Resting Teachings
Revelations of a New Dawn Awakening by Marissa Irizarry of the Institute of American Indian Arts
You spent your last moments where you belonged.
Resting quietly with the sleeping plants,
you returned to the land.
Homing In
Stolen Sisters by Diamond Williams of Haskell Indian Nations University
I fly, silver wings above clouds,
tracking yesterday through winds
tuned to stellar frequency—
Laika
Taco by Miles Charley of Navajo Technical University
How small we must have looked to you
from way up there. Our true, cruel humanity
revealed as we rocketed you skyward.
The Empty Plate
Me Too by Mikayla Patton of the Institute of American Indian Arts
Later on my mother called me and my two older brothers into the bedroom to tell us our father went to heaven.
Spirit
I Fight Like a Woman-Winona LaDuke by Lorenza Marcais of the Institute of American Indian Arts
Coyote reminds us you need a little crazy;
And a laugh or two.
Graduation
Murmuration by Tyra Wilson of College of the Muscogee Nation
Land of Enchantment Rural Route 53 – Westbound 55 mph Isolated with pot holes A jack rabbit scurries across Ditat Dues – God Enriches Stateline – Westbound – I-40 75 mph Fast pace Small. Big. Large. Semis Travel Stops to …
All Alone
Untitled by Arlita Meek of Sinte Gleska University
Got so much pain more than I can contain Put that little bloodsucker back on my vein Yeah I’m supposed to be happy of course But I’m hyperventilating put me to bed by force. Hate waking up, I’ll sleep thru …
Doing Time
Timeless by Aaron Yazzie of the Institute of American Indian Arts
There are liquid nooses that drip from the roof tops in White Clay. Entwined are the bodies of many Lakota men and women who purchased an addiction by paying with their lives. She is held without bond within the four …
