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Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures; NativeWiki literature pages; Associated Press/CNN.com: Reading into Native American Writers; Storytellers: Native American Authors Online. Yax Te' Books catalog, publishing house for Mayan literature in Mayan, Spanish and English.
Native American pieces of literature come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Oral traditions include not only narrative story-telling, but also the songs, chants, and poetry used for rituals and ceremonies.
Burns performed her poetry at numerous local New York City venues, including the American Indian Community House. She was particularly committed to performance. In an interview with Joseph Bruchac, she said, "I would rather read poetry in front of an audience more than almost anything else."
Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born American poet. [1] [2] Born into a Kashmiri Muslim family, Ali immigrated to the United States and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry.
Washbourne married John Carlton Anderson in 1891. [15] They had two daughters, Gladys and Helen. She died in 1949, at the age of 86, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [1] [16] Writing by Anderson was included in the collection Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology !875–1935 (UBC Press 1995), [17] in Changing is not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930 (University of ...
Welch’s poems are alert, sorrowful, and true. [21] His only collection of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971), is deeply ingrained in the steppe of Montana. Shortened but expressive, the poems arrive in an instant of thought or experience that handles seasons, animals, and the stories that reservation Native Americans tell. [22]