Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Millissa Kingbird
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Millissa Kingbird holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Her poetry highlights womanhood, bodies, nature, trauma and indigeneity. She has been published in Hinchas de Poesia, Yellow Medicine Review, Red Ink, Connotations Press, The Rumpus, Heavy Feather Review, and Lit Hub, and she co-guest edited Spring 2019 Yellow Medicine Review. An enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, she lives within her tribal community.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock
I think back and then here, where I can only think of beasts with stains: oil and blood. They have become as familiar as an oil-stained cloth in a garage, or the things we ignore, just there in the light.