Native American Poetry

Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.

Dreams of the Golden Eagle, a novel in rhyming narrative verse, is a must-listen for lovers of high Native American adventure who will enjoy its action-packed storylines and clarity of image. Set immediately prior to the onset of the Indian Wars, this stirring Native American adventure involves a web of murder, mystery, intrigue, betrayal, love, hatred, and revenge as a far-sighted and fearless chief, in collaboration with the tribal totem, the Golden Eagle, strives to create an alliance between the warring tribes in a concerted effort to thwart the White invasion.

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. Through elegaic verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey...