Historian, visual artist and poet rolled into one, Mihku Paul tells lively stories of Maliseet heroes throughout the millennia; vividly maps a territory encompassing old canoe routes and aunties’ work tables; and sings in every register from the mythic to the modern. This beautiful chapbook lights up the Native presence that has always permeated Maine and the Maritimes. Paul joins the ranks of other important Wabanaki poets--Alice Azure, Carol Bachofner, Joseph Bruchac, Carol Dana, and Cheryl Savageau—dedicated to preserving and updating their literary traditions. - Siobhan Senier, University of New Hampshire

Storm Horse (Yankton Sioux)
Clifford’s poetry are strong reflections of his indigenous culture, heritage and spiritual ways of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota.
Blue Cloud Quarterly

Mary Tall Mountain (Koyukon)
"Mary TallMountain weaves into her writing the story of Western civilization's "progress" and the discordant notes it brought to the way of life along the Yukon and within her own life. She retains the memory of her native culture and carries its spirit on in her poems to the many people who are turning with reverence to appreciate and protect `Turtle Island.'" - John Fox
Freedom Voices Publications

nila northSun (Chippewa/Shoshone)
After attending the Returning the Gift Native Writers Festival in 1992, she started writing and submitting her work again. This collection, including poems from her early chapbooks as well as later writing, was first announced in 1994. The title poem, she says, is "not only sexually suggestive, but alludes to the idea of a forked tongue liar or a gossip from which many of the other pieces derive."
West End Press

Marilou Awiakta (Cherokee)

Combining her Cherokee/Appalachian heritage with the experience of growing up on the atomic frontier in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Awiakta’s poetry follows the trail of Awi Usdi, Little Deer, through the saga of the Trail of Tears, through her own childhood, and into the heart of the atom itself.

Pocahontas Press

Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)

Poems of close observance and passionate feeling that deeply reflect the author's native ancestry and his belief in hope in a dark time.
West End Press

Carter Revard (Osage)
Revard is a highly complex poet of Native American ancestry who grew up among the Osage and Ponca people in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. His most lyrical works evoke tribal and childhood memories of that magical place, a world of "boulders brilliant with tangerine, umber, bluegray luminous lichens" where "purple martins... dip and sip, veer and swoop." But the poet is also a scholar of medieval English literature, and other verses evoke university life in Oxford and St. Louis. His style can shift from colloquial narrative poems to tribal chants to Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. Like the trickster figure he admires, Revard assumes many forms and speaks in many accents. But his theme of "giveaway" (thanksgiving) unifies the book: he praises geodes, watermelons with "sugar-frosted" hearts, everything "the earth has brought/ us." Recommended for larger collections.
University of Arizona Press

Lance Henson (Cheyenne)
"The eloquence of Henson's best poems has always been heightened by their compression, and their power has been impilcit in their images and in the interrelationship of those images. It is to Henson's credit that he is willing to face the danger inherent in more explicit methods." - Robert L. Berner
Point Riders Press

Lance Henson (Cheyenne)
Presents twenty-six of Henson's poems, his voice reverberating clearly in an immense space. Within a single poem, like a candle lit in a dark window, a life sings. Outside, the great silence of the prairie moves within to shape the language. It's as if an enormous moment has been registered, giving significance and resonance to the words.
Point Riders Press

Anita Endrezze (Yaqui)
Endrezze's collection, her first, is luxuriant with fragments of myth, the voices of different personae, striking visual images and always, as a backdrop, metaphors interweaving the natural world with the landscape of human emotion.
Broken Moon Press