In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict...
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the da...
Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts announces publication of a special collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, meant to address the rise in the public rhetoric
of hatred and fear, prompted by the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Writers from diverse cultures, genders, ethnic backgrounds and races
from all over the U.S. respond in poetry, fiction and nonfiction to social issues ranging from immigration, LGBT rights, women's rights, rights for people with disabilities, African American Rights, Indigenous American Rights and Latino rights, poverty, inequality, the...
Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts announces publication of a special collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, meant to address the rise in the ...