Tag Archives: Native American

The FootHills Poets: Tom Jones

Tom Jones has been writing and translating poems for forty years. Now comes Nearing Palenque / Reflections on Native America: New and Selected Poems. He was a lawyer for Amnesty International in the 1970s; now he has been teaching for … Continue reading

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The Chronogram Poets: Molly McGlennen

(“McGlennen’s title belies the grandeur and tragedy of these diverse and deft lyrics about Native Americans. The author, who is part Anishinaabe, is, like her subjects, rooted in their majestic respect for the ordinary… These poems are elegiac and heart-rending,” … Continue reading

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Is Spider-Man Native American?

Maybe monotheism is too much for us. It suggests a divine unity, a state of perfection, a clarity of purpose, a feeling of wholeness that evades us in our daily lives of conflicting emotions and intentions. Who can be One … Continue reading

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Susan Deer Cloud wins a NYFA

My friend, the big hearted Susan Deer Cloud, has just won a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant, sending a much needed $7,000 her way. Though she lives in Binghamton, she returns often in her poetry to her … Continue reading

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