New poets of Native nations

Introduction: twenty-one poets for the twenty-first century / Heid E. Erdrich

Anasazi ; Nightsong ; Downpour ; Paper water ; Elegy for yucca fruit woman ; Hole through the rock / Tacey M. Atsitty

38 ; Whereas I did not desire in childhood ; Whereas re-solution's an act ; Obligations 1 ; Obligations 2 / Layli Long Soldier

From IRL ; From Nature poem ; From Junk / Tommy Pico

Waawiindamojig / The promisers ; Okanan / Bones ; Winiiam Aagimeke / William making snowshoes ; Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the peepers say ; Jiikimaadizi / A joyful life ; Mazinbii'amawaan / Sending messages / Margaret Noodin

A mighty pulverizing machine ; The Haskell marching band ; Passive voice ; Quarter strain / Laura Da'

Owotanna Sececa ; Linear process ; Genetic code ; Quantum theory ; Dakota homecoming ; Theory doesn't live here ; Undivided interest / Gwen Nell Westerman

Leaving Tulsa ; Pottery lessons I ; Birthmark ; Chimera ; Blood moon triptych ; Canyon / Jennifer Elise Foerster

Dome riddle ; Other small thundering ; American arithmetic ; The first water is the body / Natalie Diaz

For the sake of beauty ; The sound of it ; Part gravel, part water, all Indian ; Blizzard South Dakota ; Northeast Portland ; Not just anybody can have one ; Red-ish brown-ish ; Plasmic kiln ; Song syntax cycle / Trevino L. Brings Plenty

Warming ; Her/my arctic corpse whale ; The weight of the arch distributes the girth of the other ; A year dot ; Dog moon night at Noatak ; She travels / dg nanouk okpik

Blackwater stole my pronoun ; In the cut ; What do they know of suffering, who eat of pineapples yearround ; As the owl augurs ; Stonewall to Standing Rock ; Horse vision ; The bear and the salmon ; When it rains it pours ; The bear was born / Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Anchor-screws of culture ; Toward Mount Scott ; Ever since I can remember ; What is left ; Before we are eaten ; Glitter ; Hinterlands ; Hillbilly leviathan / Sy Hoahwah

From Lisiensan Ga'lago ; From The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue] ; Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I sihek] ; Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan] ; (First trimester) ; (Papa and Wākea) ; (I Tinituhon) / Craig Santos Perez

Simple four part directions for making Indian lit ; How soon ; Dear Sonny: ; Among the almost decolonized ; The mute scribe recalls some talking circle / Gordon Henry Jr.

The petroglyphs at Olowalu ; On cooking Captain Cook ; Pele'aihonua ; Papatuanuku ; This island on which I love you ; Genesis / Brandy Nālani McDougall

Casualties ; Crosscurrent ; Equilibrium ; We are the ones ; Heart Butte, Montana / M.L. Smoker

A duck's tune ; Finders keepers: aboriginal responses to European colonization ; Ballast ; Catafalque ; Catafalque II ; The rope seethes / LeAnne Howe

Now I'm a woman ; Thrones ; Green rainbow song ; Things to do in Suquamish ; Taken care of ; Aquarelle ; Light unburied, unchained ; Double vision / Cedar Sigo

Amoroleck's words ; My standard response ; In memory of shame ; Abracadabra, an Abcedarian ; Bartolomé de las Casas ; The poet I wish I was / Karenne Wood

Speaking through our nations' teeth ; It goes something like this ; Repatriating ourselves ; Snagging the eye from Curtis ; A half-life of cardio-pulmonary function ; ... Bee / Eric Gansworth

The hands of the Taino ; Leaving the old gods ; Ghazal of body ; From "The collectors" ; Tiger on the shoulder ; Hunters, gatherers ; Earthling / Janet McAdams.