Writing
Poems, chapbook, & publications
chapbook album
The Hummingbird's Dance
2022 · Crazy Beast Studio, with Ben Durrant and JG Everest
My chapbook album — a hybrid form that asks both page and sound to carry the work. Recorded with composer-musician JG Everest and producer Ben Durrant, it is spoken word pressed against original composition until the two stop being separate things.
My poems in the album move through grief, survival, land, and the particular experience of being present in a world that has spent considerable effort making itself inhospitable to you. They are not quiet about any of this, but they are never without grace.
selected work
Untitled (from The Hummingbird's Dance)
I come from the land of waiting / and the land has not forgotten / what it means to hold a name / inside a mouth that won't be still.
Crow Creek, Late Summer
The water remembers / what the maps refuse to say — / every bend a name / every name a wound / that kept breathing anyway.
What the Body Knows
Before the word there was the weight of it. / Before the weight there was the thing itself — / not waiting to be named, just there, / the way a scar is there / long after the story has been told.
Publications & credits
Yellow Medicine Review
2018
A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought. My work was published here in 2018.
The Hummingbird's Dance
2022
Chapbook album. Spoken word with original composition by JG Everest. Crazy Beast Studio.
Button Poetry
Ongoing
My performance work presented through Button Poetry, one of the leading spoken word platforms.
