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Black and Indigenous women poets, DM me links to your work. I’m on a poetry selection committee and I want to lift you!

Esp. Queer and disabled Black and Indigenous women. Esp. esp. trans Black and Indigenous women.

I don’t care about your resume or publication history or where you are in the world. I just want to read your words.

This is also like a year out, so don’t wait for a contact. I’ll just be adding your name/info to a proposed reading list.

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#poetry #literary #writing #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackWriter #NDN #NDNlit #NDNMastodon #chicanaWriters #chicanaLiterature

Black and Indigenous women poets, DM me links to your work. I’m on a poetry selection committee and I want to lift you!

Esp. Queer and disabled Black and Indigenous women. Esp. esp. trans Black and Indigenous women.

I don’t care about your resume or publication history or where you are in the world. I just want to read your words.

This is also like a year out, so don’t wait for a contact. I’ll just be adding your name/info to a proposed reading list.

#BoostThis

#poetry #literary #writing #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackWriter #NDN #NDNlit #NDNMastodon #chicanaWriters #chicanaLiterature

Black and Indigenous women poets, DM me links to your work. I’m on a poetry selection committee and I want to lift you!

Esp. Queer and disabled Black and Indigenous women. Esp. esp. trans Black and Indigenous women.

I don’t care about your resume or publication history or where you are in the world. I just want to read your words.

This is also like a year out, so don’t wait for a contact. I’ll just be adding your name/info to a proposed reading list.

#BoostThis

#poetry #literary #writing #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackWriter #NDN #NDNlit #NDNMastodon #chicanaWriters #chicanaLiterature

“A large element of the novel focuses on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the complicated nuances of adoption and the foster care system. Angeline doesn’t just mention ICWA in passing; she delves into its significance as a legal safeguard designed to protect Native children from being unjustly removed from their homes, communities, and cultures.” #Indigenous #NDNlit https://www.indian-affairs.org/blog/searching-for-home-a-sisters-in-the-wind-review

“A large element of the novel focuses on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the complicated nuances of adoption and the foster care system. Angeline doesn’t just mention ICWA in passing; she delves into its significance as a legal safeguard designed to protect Native children from being unjustly removed from their homes, communities, and cultures.” #Indigenous #NDNlit https://www.indian-affairs.org/blog/searching-for-home-a-sisters-in-the-wind-review

Tommy Orange on Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony:

“Fiction isn’t trying to be sacred text, it is trying to be like the world. In other words, it is trying to be everything, and this book, Ceremony, is doing so much I had never read and still continue to not find in fiction—a combination of old stories and new stories, of prayer and spell and poem and song, but always, always doing the work of storytelling.” https://lithub.com/a-rare-sacred-novel-tommy-orange-on-the-genius-of-leslie-marmon-silkos-ceremony/

#NDNlit #Indigenous #books

"Kokum was shorter than all of her daughters, though she didn’t look it, and she was all teeth. Her real teeth rotted out as a kid, and when she got her dentures, they were too big and too white for her mouth...She used to call them a weapon. 'Stronger than regular teeth,' she would say. 'Can bite right through bone. Don’t ask me how I know.'”

Continue reading an excerpt from Jessica John's (Nehiyaw) newly released novel, BAD CREE, on Lithub. https://lithub.com/bad-cree/ #NDNLit #indigenous #Native