The first thing to recognize about the Indigenous poetry of North America is that it is neither monolithic nor homogeneous. When Europeans first arrived as traders and colonists, North America was already fully populated with Native nations. Today, there are still 573 officially recognized Native nations in the United States and 634 in Canada, where […]
Lucille Lang Day
Lucille Lang Day has published eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place and Becoming an Ancestor. She is also a co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, as well as the author of two children’s books and a memoir. Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Her many honors also include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and eleven Pushcart nominations. She is the founder and director of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books. http://lucillelangday.com
Floret / Phosphor / Bird / Water / Light
Review of The Amateur Scientist’s Notebook: Poems by Jesse DeLong. Reno, Nevada: Baobab Press, 2021. Paper, 62 pages. $16.95. Florets, phosphorus, birds, water, and light are recurrent images in Jesse DeLong’s debut collection, The Amateur Scientist’s Notebook: Poems, which explores the evolving dynamic of a couple, a man and a woman, whose […]
The Art of Nothing
In works of art, just as design choices have both aesthetic and emotional impacts, so too does the absence of design. Ultimately, design also has environmental impacts, which can be brought about either by the materials used in a work or by the presence of the completed work. I was thinking about all of this […]