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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Nov 07, 2020

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

Poverty
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Nov 07, 2020

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Literature
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

Matter
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Nov 07, 2020

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

Private
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Nov 07, 2020

Spiritual matters should be private.

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Career
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Nov 07, 2020

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Indian
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Nov 07, 2020

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Limited
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Nov 07, 2020

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Independent
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Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

Interesting
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Nov 07, 2020

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

Emotion
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

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