This is by no means a full collection of Indigenous poets; it is meant to encourage you to continue exploring the diverse and ever-growing landscape of writers. Many of these poets have mapped themselves to these geographic areas, but that does not mean they are limited to them. Words flow beyond borders, beyond colonial maps. How can these words connect us and draw us closer to one another? Inspired by LIVING NATIONS, LIVING WORDS.

above: Tayi Tibble (Curti Angle), Joy Harjo (Julien Lienard/Contour/Getty), Billy-Ray Belcourt (Tenille Campbell), Natalie Diaz (courtesy of ASU), jaye simpson (Divya Nanray)

  • Chrystos (Menominee)

    Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee)

    Anita Endrezze (Yaqui/Pima/Maya)

    Ishmael Angaluuk Hope (Inupiaq)

    Joan Naviyuk Kane (Inupiaq)

    dg nanouk okpik (Inupiaq)

    Rena Priest (Lummi Nation)- Poet Laureate of Washington State

    Ishmael Angaluuk Hope (Inupiaq/Tlingit)

    Sasha LaPointe (Coast Salish)

    Duane Niatum (Jamestown S’Klallam)

    Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen (Inupiaq)

    Cathy Tagnak Rexford (Inupiaq)

    Marie Tozier (Inupiaq)

    Cedar Sigo (Suquamish)

    Elizabeth Woody (Diné/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakamaan)

  • Crisosto Apache (Mescalero/Chiricahua/Diné)

    Tacey M. Atsitty (Diné)

    Esther Belin (Diné)

    Sherwin Bitsui (Diné)

    Julian Talamantez Brolaski (Mescalero/Lipan)

    Jessa Calderon (Chumash/Tongva)

    Norla Chee (Diné/Oneida)

    Emily Clarke (Cahuilla)

    Natalie Diaz (Mojave/ Akimel O’otham)

    Kinsale Drake (Diné)

    Max Early (Laguna Pueblo)

    Rex Lee Jim (Diné)

    Manny Loley (Diné)

    Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota)

    Amber McCrary (Diné)

    Diego Medina (Piro-Manso-Tiwa)

    Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone/Chumash)

    nila northSun (Shoshone/ Anishinaabe)

    Kim Shuck (Cherokee)

    Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)

    Jake Skeets (Diné)

    Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache)

    Luci Tapahonso (Diné)

    Sareya Taylor (White Mountain Apache/ Diné)

    Laura Tohe (Diné)

    Alan Pelaez Lopez (Coastal Zapotec)

    Tanaya Winder (Duckwater Shoshone/Pyramid Lake Paiute/Southern Ute)

  • b. william bearhart (St. Croix Chippewa)

    Trevino Brings Plenty (Lakota)

    CooXooEii Black (Northern Arapaho)

    Henry Real Bird (Crow)

    Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe)

    Heather Cahoon (Salish/Kootenai)

    Heid E. Erdrich (Anishinaabe)

    Louise Erdrich (Anishinaabe)

    Gordon Henry Jr. (Anishinaabe)

    Roberta Hill (Oneida)

    LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)

    Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya (Comanche/Yuchi)

    Denise Sweet (Anishinaabe)

    Elise Paschen (Osage)

    Ray Young Bear (Meskwaki)

    Michael Wasson (Nimíipuu)

    Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe)

  • Shonda Buchanan (Choctaw, Coharie, Cherokee & African)

    Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee)

    Dominique Daye Hunter (West African descent/Sapponi/Nansemond)

    Mary Christensen (Eastern Band of Cherokee)

    Jennifer Elise Foerster (Mvskoke Creek)

    Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Creek)

    Jessica Mehta (Aniyunwiya)

    Karenne Wood (Monacan Indian Nation)

  • Richard Calmit Adams (Lenape)

    Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)

    Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Mvskoke Creek)

    Domonique Daye Hunter (Black/Saponi and Nansemond Native American)

  • Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi)

    Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

    Hinemoana Baker (Maori)

    Arapera Blank

    Debbie Broughton (Taranaki)

    Ray Caird

    Anahera Maire Gildea (Ngāti Tukorehe)

    Nicole Titihuia Hawkins (Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngāti Pāhauwera)

    Keri Hulme

    Witi Ihimaera

    Trixie Te Arama Menzies

    Paula Morris

    Roma Potiki

    Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki)

    J.C. Sturm

    Apirana Taylor

    Tracey Tawhiao

    Tayi Tibble

    Hone Tuwhare

  • Jeannette Christine Armstrong (Penticton Indian Band)

    Joanne Arnott (Manitoba Métis)

    Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree)

    Lesley Belleau (Ojibwe)

    Louise Bernice Halfe (Cree)

    Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)

    Norma Dunning (Inuk)

    Michelle Good (Cree)

    Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk)

    Helen Knott (Dane-Zaa, Nehiyaw, Métis)

    Dilys Leman (Métis)

    Bobbi Lee Maracle (Stó꞉lō nation)

    T’áncháy (Tunchai) Redvers (Dene, Métis, Deninu K’ue First Nation)

    Janet Marie Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora)

    Armand Garnet Ruffo's (Chapleau Fox Lake Cree)

    Gregory Scofield (Métis)

    jaye simpson (Oji-Cree-Salteaux)

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Nishnaabeg)

    Tala Tootoosis (Plains Cree, Lakota, and Haudenosaunee)

    Arielle Twist (Nehiyaw)

    Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree)

  • Briceida Cuevas Cob (Yucatec Maya)

    Juan Hernández (Huastecan Nahuatl)

    Juana Karen (Chol)

    Enriqueta Lunez (de Chamula, Chiapas)

    Xel-Ha López Méndez

    Irma Pineda (Zapotec)

    Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec)

    Celerina Sánchez (Mixtec)

    Mikeas Sánchez (Zoque)

    Refugio Savala (Yaqui)

    Víctor Terán (Isthmus Zapotec)

    Natalia Toledo (Isthmus Zapotec)

    Santos Garcia Wikit (Yaqui)

  • Donovan Kuhio Colleps (Kānaka Maoli)

    William Nu’utupu Giles (afakasi Samoan)

    Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas (CHamoru)

    D. Keali’i Mackenzie (Kanaka Oiwi/ Nesian)

    Brandy Nalani McDougall (Kānaka Maoli)

    Mahealani Perez-Wendt (Kānaka Maoli)

    No’u Revilla (‘Oiwi)

    Craig Santos Perez (CHamoru)

    Lehua M. Taitano (CHamoru)

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