Happy National Poetry Month! I love any excuse to celebrate the written word, and poetry is something I’m always personally working on improving my appreciation of.
Day 1 – Confliction Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Day 2 – The Storm by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Day 3 – Captivity by Louise Erdrich
Day 4 – My Heart Soars and Untitled by Chief Dan George
Day 5 – Dreaming of My Time by X’unei Lance Twitchell
Day 6 – Gia’s Song by Nora Noranjo Norse
Day 7 – Star Quilt by Roberta J. Hill
Day 8 – Chapter 2 by Annie Wenstrup
Day 9 – De’an by Heid E. Erdrich
Day 10 – Passive Voice by Laura Da’
Day 11 – Ode to the Matriarchs by Ishmael Angaluuk Hope
Day 12 – Epithalamia by Joan Naviyuk Kane
Day 13 – Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats by Tiffany Midge
Day 14 – Public Grief by Heid E. Erdrich
Day 15 – The great sea by Uvavnuk
Day 16 – Once the World Was Perfect by Joy Harjo
Day 17 – IMIQMUIT, FROM THE WATER, by Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen
Day 18 – If Oil is Drilled in Bristol Bay by DG Nanouk Okpik
Day 19 – We Became Pieces so the Whole World Would Survive by Abigail Chabitnoy
Day 20 – He Mele Aloha no ka Niu by Brandy Nālani McDougall
Day 21 – Combing by Gladys Cardiff
Day 22 – My Once Life by Pamela J. Peters
Day 23 – The Spoken Forest by Ernestine Hayes
Day 24 – The Clans by Richard Calmit Adams
Day 25 – Death by Crisisto Apache
Day 27 – If Only in Dreams by X’unei Lance Twitchell
Day 28 – He Mele Aloha no ka Niu by Brandy Nalani McDougall
Day 29 – Native American Poetry and Culture from the National Poetry Foundation