New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E Erdrich

New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E Erdrich

A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century

New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth--long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics--and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now.

Poets included are Tacey M. Atsitty, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Laura Da', Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry, Jr., Sy Hoahwah, LeAnne Howe, Layli Long Soldier, Janet McAdams, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Margaret Noodin, dg okpik, Craig Santos Perez, Tommy Pico, Cedar Sigo, M. L. Smoker, Gwen Westerman, and Karenne Wood.

Heid E.Erdrich is an independent researcher, curator, playwright, and the founder of Wiigwaas Press, an Ojibwe-language publishing house. She is an Ojibwe student at Turtle Mountain who grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Heid has been a tenured professor and a visiting author and scholar at dozens of colleges, universities, libraries, and cultural organizations for the past two decades. She has previously published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which, National Monuments, won the Minnesota Book Award in 2009.