The Navajo Nation’s first-ever Poet Laureate has been named and will be officially introduced to the public on May 17...

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

THE CEDAR TREE I understand why the People in the Northwest say the canoe is sacred, that the canoe has a spirit...

It's a misconception that poetry is a dying art—sure, we may never see a TONY-winning play written in iambic pentameter, and the stories of the 21st century won't be told in a 15,0...

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...

INSIDE BOTH OF US ...the sheep were like the dead like his eyes on the pearl street mall and he said he brought the rain down from pine ridge why couldn’t he bring it down in arizo...

SOLDIERS OF BONE Demented, tormented. Images of mine head, Film my eyes, rheumy, liquor-doused, thoughts decrepit. Spitting ink – A pungent flavor, like that of failure. Harken!...

Today's work comes from poet, author and filmmaker Diane Glancy, and is inspired by the tools used by medicine men known as prescription sticks or prayer sticks...

A NEW LANGUAGE My words are always collapsing upon themselves, they feel too tight in my mouth. I want a new language...