by Kara | Sep 8, 2024 | Rivers
This poem is written in free verse. It is lyrical. It came to me when traveling on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation some years ago. I was inspired by the cultural activity I witnessed there. It is about recovery of a tribal language and how impactful that is. It...
by Kara | Sep 8, 2024 | Rivers
Ancestor Moon is a Shakespearian sonnet. The topic of the poem is based in pre-contact time. It is lyrical and romantic poem. It is indirectly from historic stories of when and where young men and women met. That an acquaintance or even a love at first site could...
by Kara | Sep 8, 2024 | Rivers
The poem Weaving with My Grandmothers is rooted in the years I have spent taking classes to learn to weave. I am not an artful weaver, but I am a committed student of both the Yakama wapaas baskets and the Coast Salish cedar and wool weaving. This poem relates some of...
by Kara | Sep 8, 2024 | Rivers
The Acknowledgement series in Rivers in My Veins is based on the trend of groups offering land acknowledgements at the start of meetings. While I realize many offer land acknowledgement out of a spirit of contrition or awareness, the impact on Native peoples can be...
by Kara | Sep 3, 2024 | Creativity
As a Native writer, my writing is not only for myself but also for my tribes. The Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, where I am enrolled, wasn’t even counted by the U.S. Census until about forty years after the surrounding tribes. When the local newspaper published wrong...
by Kara | Sep 3, 2024 | Rivers
I met Ron Starbuck of Saint Julian Press at AWP, the national writer’s conference, in spring of 2024. I was near to finishing my Master of Fine Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts. As a career journalist, earlier in my career, I know how to pitch...
by Kara | Aug 12, 2024 | Creativity
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