This week, KL Krystal Lyons (https://twitter.com/dystopialloon) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "The land and I are calling you home and I don't care whose voice is louder" and "To the Missing but not Forgotten," and the missing presence in our lives.
Read KL Krystal Lyon's poem in Wards Lit Mag (page 11):
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/598cb679db29d6413909bc23/t/5eaa9ce6e8f13b7deaf7f2ef/1588239591744/Iss05-Native.pdf
Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of August 3rd.
Photo provided by KL Krystal Lyons.
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Information about the Muscogee (Creek) Nation: https://www.mcn-nsn.gov/
2. 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: https://greenwoodculturalcenter.com/1921-tulsa-race-massacre
3. Mapping out original locations of Native nations: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before
4. Interactive map of Native Nation territories we’re in: https://native-land.ca/ and article about the organization: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/native-land-website-traditional-territories-1.4638401
5. Information on the annual gathering of nations: https://www.gatheringofnations.com/about.aspx
6. Urban Indian Health Institute’s information portal about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/
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