JOY HARJO’S first book of poetry, The Last Song, was published in 1975, during a time period often referred to as the Second Wave of the Native American Renaissance

So to Speak is so excited to announce that Michelle Lee’s poem “The Myth of the Mother and Child,” which is included in the anthology Writing That Risks from Red Bridge Press, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

To read Erdrich’s work is to get caught up in the rapids of a powerful river.

Heid’s poetry integrates the everyday world with the mythical; her poems blend universal themes of life, death, and spirituality as easily as a baker sifts together flour, salt, and leavening.

So to Speak celebrates Native American Heritage Month!

The past few weeks So to Speak has devoted the blog to “Hispanic Heritage Month,” the official national recognition and celebration of the contributions made by generations of Latino/Hispanic Americans in the United States.