Laura Da’
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National Poetry Month Day 24: Laura Da’
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Laura Da’
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Laura Da’ laments the near-eradication of the Shawnee language. Da’ provides a litany of broken treaties, each one an “artifact of unimaginable suffering,” and attempts to redefine the treaty for herself in today’s world. Then, industrious…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Pain Scale Treaties
Perched on the shoulders of generational trauma sit these two theses: suffering begets cruelty begets suffering begets cruelty, and pain is empathy’s catalyst.