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Poetry Off the Shelf
Four poets on old stories, cultural memory, and minority languages.
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Language & Linguistics
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- ArticleBy Luci Tapahonso
Our language reminds us of the legacy that connects us to the past and instills that legacy in this present time.
- ArticleBy Chris Hoshnic
It isn’t the final product of a poem I’m interested in, but the way poetry can bring community together.
- ArticleBy Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, Beth Piatote & Jake Skeets
The gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.
- ArticleBy Laura Tohe
When I write in Diné bizaad the sounds come from the center of what it means to be Diné. Diné bizaad bee yashti. Diné bizaad bee hadínisht’é.
- ArticleBy Natanya Ann Pulley
We must accept a holiness in the language of space and silence.
- PoemBy Zoey YazzieDoor :[frames]: bolted by seams of
desert fleece and beaming blindfolds
dry-steamed by the musk … 
- PoemBy Margarita EngleTaíno in our blood
and on our tongues
stirs, yawns, rises,
no longer lost.
We ignore old historians
who tell… - PoemBy avery r. younga•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
- PoemBy Zoë Skouldingwhat travessia/trip/travesia/trajet
traverses
the wreck/naufragio/
naufragio/naufrage
of… - PoemBy Lydia Harris1
Sunday vellum tongues with words of prayer
Monday messages from the unknown
Tuesday how to… 
- PoemBy Patricia SmithDear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart. Dear listener to the air’s brutal and gorgeous music, soft dancer to ballads...
- PoemTranslated By Daniel OwenIt’s a shame this poem’s already been erased when
I go to read it. Like humid air that tugs
at my arm to catch what will fall, is
falling, and falls. What’s up with erasing? Glue,
scissors, and yarn make a shadow of barbed
wire.... - PoemBy Marwa Helalsay i ‘well
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backed ive time first the isnt this
disaster a of out us