Editor’s Note: During National Poetry Month in April we profiled Sherwin Bistui, Diné (Navajo) of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’izilani (Many Goats Clan)...

[Editor's Note: Luci Tapahonso was recently named by Navajo Technical College as the first-ever poet laureate of the Navajo Nation...

Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft set many precedents during her short life in the Midwest in the early 1800s...

Words have always been a powerful force in Natalie Diaz’s life...

Editor's Note: Sherwin Bitsui is a poet who grew up in the arid "painted desert" region of the Navajo reservation...

Like many of today’s Native poets, Sherwin Bitsui, Navajo, blends ancient and modern, bridging the two with language...

Al Hunter has been many things. He has served as chief of Rainy River First Nations in Ontario and is a member of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty No. 3...

April is National Poetry Month, an annual celebration of verse initiated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996...

The word poetry can evoke echoes of everything from Shakespearean sonnets to minimalist Japanese haiku...

Poetry has long both reflected and guided Native experience, starting with oral communication down through the generations...