Spawn

SpawnSpawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming of age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Marie Andre Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers'

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where a hundred children now speak Ojibwe as their first language

Partly because of persistent student resistance

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future being a matrix of the choices we make now

”—USA Today

Eastman could be speaking to our own time with its spiritual confusion and environmental degradation

"The Beadworkers is a feast of wit and storytelling

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Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to reservations

Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national

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