Description:
Indigenous Poetics represents some of the best Native American poets publishing today writing on what we believe poetry means to us. The collection offers a community of voices, speaking about the creative process, identity, language, and the making of poetry.
Brief description:
Inés Hernández-Ávila is Niimiipuu (Nez Perce) and Tejana (Texas-Mexican). She is a poet, visual artist, and professor emerita of Native American studies at University of California-Davis and one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). She collaborates with the Library of Congress, Palabra archive, working to increase the recordings of Indigenous creative writers from Latin America. She is a member of Luk'upsíimey/The North Star Collective, which promotes Niimiipuu language revitalization through creative writing. A recent publication (poems and an essay) appeared in the anthology The Shared Language of Poetry: Mexico and the United States. She contributed poems to wiic'íiqin hitoláaycix / "words going upriver" / palabras yendo rio arriba: Poesía de [Poetry from] Luk'upsíimey: The North Star Collective, a chapbook given to Mayan writers in Chiapas in 2022."