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: Molly McGlennen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is of Anishinaabe and European descent. She earned a PhD in Native American studies from University of California-Davis and an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. Currently, she is a professor of English and Native American studies as well as the Anne McNiff Tatlock '61 Chair in Multidisciplinary Studies at Vassar College, where she has been responsible for building its Native American Studies program. McGlennen is the author of two collections of poetry, and her poems appear in Poetry, Academy of American Poets' Poets.org (Poems-a-Day), Red Ink, Yellow Medicine Review, Prairie Schooner, and Sentence. Her critical monograph Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry earned the Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies. From 2020-23, McGlennen served as president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.