#a poet laureate

[maybesdaughter]

The Cultivated Chairwoman presses the pen and the wreath into your hands. Her expression is avid. "I had every faith," she says. "I hope you will not be tempted to write anything about this committee."

--A Poet-Laureate.

[spurious]

(Richard Siken, Crush)

[uwmspeccoll]

Voices of the Land

What better way to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day than to highlight this landmark anthology that commemorates the Indigenous Peoples of North America? When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, is a curated collection that features the poetry of 160 poets each showcasing a distinct voice from nearly 100 Indigenous Nations. This is the first edition from 2020, published by W. W. Norton & Company in New York.

The anthology is the first to provide a historically comprehensive collection of Native poetry. The literary traditions of Native Americans, the original poets of this country, date back centuries. The book opens with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize winner American Kiowa/Cherokee N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024) and contains introductions from contributing editors for five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literature and closes with emerging poets, creating a rich and diverse tapestry of Indigenous voices.

Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a prominent figure in the literary world. She is known for her work as a poet, musician, playwright, and author. In addition to her contributions to literature, Harjo is also a celebrated performer and has released several albums combining poetry and music. In 2019, she made history by becoming the first Native American United States Poet Laureate and only the second to serve three terms. Throughout her career, Harjo has been a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and has used her art to shed light on the experiences of Native peoples.

The following is an excerpt from Harjo’s introduction to this work:

“The anthology then is a way to pass on the poetry that has emerged from rich traditions of the very diverse cultures of indigenous peoples from these indigenous lands, to share it. Most readers will have no idea that there is or was a single Native poet, let alone the number included in this anthology. Our existence as sentient human beings in the establishment of this country was denied. Our presence is still an afterthought, and fraught with tension, because our continued presence means that the mythic storyline of the founding of this country is inaccurate. The United States is a very young country and has been in existence for only a few hundred years. Indigenous peoples have been here for thousands upon thousands of years and we are still here.”

View other Indigenous Peoples' Day posts.

View other posts from our Native American Literature Collection.

-Melissa (Stockbridge-Munsee), Special Collections Graduate Intern

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

[dreamy-conceit]

I asked my friend the translator, What was the first known act of translation in the history of mankind? His answer was, Probably something into or out of Egyptian. I thought about this for a while and ventured a certainty: No, I said, it was when a mother heard her baby babble or cry, and had to decide in an instant what it meant.

— Mary Ruefle, 'Short Lecture on Translation (Bat City Review, 2012)

[moonageromantic]

Moodboards inspired by poetry 🦚👜

The Bird Frau

(Rita Dove)

[darthmatthewtwihard]

Wicked | Do Us Good - Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman is so inspiring.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Ada Limón is Poet Laureate of the United States. This poem is to be engraved in Nasa’s spacecraft the Europa Clipper Ship to be launched in October to study Jupiter’s moon.

In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.

Arching under the night sky inky with black expansiveness, we point to the planets we know, we pin quick wishes on stars. From earth, we read the sky as if it is an unerring book of the universe, expert and evident. Still, there are mysteries below our sky: the whale song, the songbird singing its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree. We are creatures of constant awe, curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom, at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow. And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water, each drop of rain, each rivulet, each pulse, each vein. O second moon, we, too, are made of water, of vast and beckoning seas. We, too, are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need to call out through the dark.

[feyd-meowtha]

“Christ,” John said to himself, taking a deep breath and setting his face into what he hoped was a look of reassurance as he pulled his eyes away from the clearly infected wound and back to Gale’s sweating face. Gale was looking at it too, his mouth thin and pinched, they both knew what a wound like that meant.  “It’ll be okay,” Bucky said, as much to convince himself as Gale. “I’ll get Helen to look at it, she’s a devil with some surgical spirit. You’ll be right as rain in no time, okay?” “Sure, Bucky,” Gale said with a weak smile as Bucky leant forward, touching his forehead to Gale’s and feeling the terrifying difference in temperature. “I’m just gonna lay down a bit longer. I’m feeling’ real tired all of a sudden.” 

[crystalclaire]

keep going into the world, bird,

startle the sad spring air with the whirring of your wings

“Bird Bound for a Good World” by Ada Limón

[toomagazineperfection]

I was teeth, I say from me.

I would walk away.

In the mouth, I was the main character.

I was start.

I am a raided mansion.

I am a work of myth.

It stays like tombstone of aches of life.

It is the myth of God and heaven of sake.

I was life.

In the height of God, it was night to start.

I was.

Life.

Sunidhi

[helloparkerrose]

[catboygirljoker]

i love when someone reblogs a xigpost from me and tags it with "xigbar" or "The Dark Freeshooter" <-or somesuch xigbar tag. and then when i go into the tag, a good ~25-50% of reblogs are of my posts. like i dont even think its because they like my posts i think its just because a good ~25-50% of posts that have been made about xigbar in the past year are my posts

[uwmspeccoll]

Celebrating Brenda Cárdenas as Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate!

Today we’re thrilled to celebrate Wisconsin’s new Poet Laureate, Brenda Cárdenas! Cárdenas is the author of 2023’s Trace (Red Hen Press) and Boomerang (Bilingual Press, 2009), as well as several chapbooks. She also served as co-editor of Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest, for which she was recognized by Chicago Women in Publishing. She served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate from 2010-2012, and is Professor Emerita of English here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Cárdenas frequently collaborates with artists in other mediums, and recently her poetry has been set to music by the Greek trio Starwound, and by composer Daniel Alfonso. Much of the work in her recent collection, Trace, highlights her inter-art, inter-textual, ekphrastic practice, as poems recognize the work they respond to, and follow from: prints, paintings, sculptures, photography, film, and other poems. This ekphrastic impulse manifests in incisive, multi-sensory description that surrenders to memory, or imperative, or history, or feeling. Responding to the art of El Anatsui, she demands: “Plant / feet so firm, will takes root. Plant will / so wide, ears sprout ancestral maize.”

Her poems conflate human bodies with material, modern life, and with capital-N-Nature – not a flattening, but an enchantment, as objects, landscapes, people are animated by and through one another: “How many stones did I have / to swallow before my legs / believed their own weight?” Grief over a dead sparrow found in one’s bathtub. Grief over a family drowned in a river seeking a better life. A litany of plastics overwhelming the page and the planet. Playful language of children’s literature – P is for… — juxtaposed with a “blood-splashed underpass” and “peyote tongues.” Religious iconography. A stone that “hissed like a radiator” and chatter that scattered “like mice”.

As Mauricio Kilwein Guevara puts it in the introduction to her 2005 chapbook, From the Tongues of Brick and Stone, “These feathered poems come with heart and lungs, bones, muscles, sinews, claws, and tongue.”

Cárdenas will serve as our Poet Laureate for the next two years.

Linocuts by Jeff Abbey Maldonado, and featured in From the Tongues of Brick and Stone.

Read more poetry by Brenda Cárdenas.

Listen to a recording of Alfonso’s “Para los Tin-Tun-Teros.”

[dedeuteros]

Lover of the lady Moon, sun in his eyes.

[anazul]

[thegreatyin]

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I think I'm midgame???? Like I just got to the tigers but I don't think doing the orphans thing you were doing is very profitable? like you get 25 tribute for one.

648e (10 orphans) yields 250 tribute (781e) for 62.5 actions plus travel.

(781-684)/1.552 echo with every action, which is worse then doing the Underclay (around 3e per action with three actions that give nothing on each cycle)

Am I missing something???? I need money

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the underclay is also, unfortunately, profitable. i think. maybe. possibly??

...like i said, im infamously bad at making money, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. you might need to outsource this conundrum to someone else.