Two Poems by Suzan Shown Harjo
after-dinner remarks (after dinner with guillermo gomez-pena and the sisters) we are uncommon peoples with [...]
Poetry
The Petition(-ing, er) of Peace(-ful)(mak -ing, -er)
BY ESTHER G. BELIN This poem accompanies Hampton Sides’s story, “Straight Back to Our Own [...]
Verses to an Institution
WHAT’S NOT LOST Something happens when there is an absence of foundation there is a direction chosen [...]
Because the Road Rises to Meet Their Feet
BY ANNE VALLEY-FOX Anne Valley-Fox has published four collections of poetry, most recently How Shadows Are [...]
Love Letter to the World
Love Letter to the World, a social-art project, was performed at The PASEO art festival in Taos in September [...]
This Is How It Began
BY VALERIE MARTÍNEZ The cyclone leaves blood on the land— hoof prints, imprints of heeled boots, sounds [...]
Estevan the Moor
BY ANNE VALLEY-FOX In the Year of Our Lord 1528, Cabeza de Vaca and three soldiers among them Estevan the [...]
El Cuento de Juana Henrieta
DAMIEN FLORES There was no wind the day Juana battled the machine. Smoke rose from the stacks of the downtown [...]
Earth and I Gave You Turquoise
BY N. SCOTT MOMADAY Earth and I gave you turquoise when you walked [...]
What’s Become of the Punchers?
BY JACK THORP What’s become of the punchers We rode with long ago? The hundreds and hundreds of cowboys We [...]
Sitting Still for Beauty
BY JOAN LOGGHE When I come into town, with my lists and good outfits, with my parcels to mail with my radio [...]
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