"I was truly honored when my poem 'Lullaby' was selected by twenty-first U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2016-2017 COG Poetry Awards, and even more thrilled with the short animated video adaptation that students of Cogswell College created. The video can be viewed here."
"'At one point in the editing, we decided to read the whole manuscript aloud,' Harjo says. 'That's how I revise, so that's what we did—is we took it into our mouths and took it to our bodies.' The result of that work is When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through—an anthology of poetry from more than 160 poets, representing close to 100 indigenous nations."
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“'The Wake of Maria De Jesus Martinez' was one attempt to write, as form, a casta-like poem, where each section of the lyric was itself of a different time and space, yet, linked through repeating phrases. As the lyric progressed, the work began to be less 'pictorial' and relied more and more on sound: the emotional labor of the poem was performed/rendered through its music."
