Marie Howe writes poems with a clarity that approaches sunlight, shining her gaze into underlit places. Her long-awaited fourth book, “Magdalene” (Norton; $25.95), reimagines the shadowy biblical ...

to be thankful for. I seek to be forgotten, still. Compounded. But, that the year would end on a high note. Relationships resolved. Every friendship even the broken, is a friendship again. Mostly.

LAYLI LONG SOLDIER has been widely recognized for her command of the visual aspects of poetic form and her use of “documentary poetics,” drawing upon found texts, historical documents, and events.

The best poetry debuts are often lexicons. You can see a poet’s career in the words they use. How eerie to recall that the word “suicide” appears on Page 1 of Sylvia Plath’s “The Colossus and Other ...

The event that triggered much of the conception of poet Layli Long Soldier’s book of poems, “Whereas,” first barely registered at all in her mind. More tellingly, as Soldier notes in her acclaimed ...

The Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate Program is sponsoring a poetry reading and conversation with nationally acclaimed poet Layli Long Soldier at the Sept. 26 Bainbridge Island Book Festival. The free ...

On Nov. 13, Layli Long Soldier, an Oglala Lakota poet and author, shared work from her upcoming poetry collection along with several visual art pieces in front of a full crowd in the Old Chapel at the ...

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Joy Harjo’s work is rooted in the Native community, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier. Interviews by Constance C.R. White Joy Harjo: I’ve been lucky to have always had ...

Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length ...