Native American 21st century poetry books

as of 2014

Poetry Volumes of the Twenty-First Century by Native American / American Indian / Indigenous / Tribal heritage poets of the U.S. and U.S. occupied Pacific / Hawaii 
compiled by the Indigenous Caucus of AWP
Jennifer Foerster, Organizer; Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, founding organizer; Sherwin Bitsui, 2013 Chair: Craig Santos Perez, 2014 Chair; Brandy Nalani McDougall, original panel/caucus member; Travis Hedge Coke, assistant

Excluding reprints with exception of selected/collected editions, excluding vanity/self-publishing platforms or platforms whereas poet is publisher
95 poets
(mixed genre books and/or significant chapbook publications  included and noted within listings)

If you wish to submit a text for possible inclusion please contact the AWP Indigenous Caucus organizer. Please, also, cite the AWP Indigenous Caucus when referring to this bibliography.

This list is vetted and is not intended for general public amendments.



1. Ai. Dread: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, Hardcover
2. Ai. Dread:
Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, Paperback
3. Ai. No Surrender: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2010, Hardcover
4. Ai. No Surrender: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010, Paperback
5. Ai. The Collected Poems of Ai. New York: W.W Norton & Company, 2013, Hardcover (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)
6. Allen, Paula GunnAmerica the Beautiful: the last poems. West End Press, 20107.
Alexie, Sherman
. One Stick Song. Hanging Loose Press, 2000, Hardcover

8. Alexie, Sherman. One Stick Song. Hanging Loose Press, 2000, Paperback

9. Alexie, Sherman. Face. (poems/prose, fiction). Hanging Loose Press, 2009, Hardcover

10. Alexie, Sherman. Face. (poems/prose, fiction). Hanging Loose Press, 2009, Paperback

11. Alexie, Sherman. What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned. Hanging Loose Press, 2013, Hardcover

12. Alexie, Sherman. What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned. Hanging Loose Press, 2013, Paperback

13. Barnes, Jim. Visiting Picasso. University of Illinois Press, 2007, Hardcover

14. Barnes, Jim. Visiting Picasso. University of Illinois Press, 2007, Paperback

15. Barnes, Jim. On a Wing of the Sun: Three Volumes of Poetry. University of Illinois Press, 2001

16. Becker, Kimberly L. Words Facing East. WordTech Communications, 2010

17. Becker, Kimberly L. The Dividings. WordTech Communications, 2014

18. Bitsui, Sherwin. Shapeshift. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2003

19. Bitsui, Sherwin. Flood Song. Copper Canyon Press, 2009

20. Blaeser, Kimberly. Absentee Indians and other poems. Michigan State University, 2002

21. Blaeser, Kimberly. Apprenticed to Justice. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2007

22. Brings Plenty, Trevino. Real Indian Junk Jewelry. Backwaters Press, 2012

23. Brings Plenty, Trevino. Chapbook inclusion in Shedding Skins. Michigan State University

  Press, Adrian Louis Editor, 2008 

24. Brolaski, Julian Talamantez. The Daily Usonian (chapbook). Atticus/Finch, 2004

25. Brolaski, Julian Talamantez. Madame Bovary's Diary (chapbook). Cy Press, 2005

26. Brolaski, Julian Talamantez. A Buck in a Corridor (chapbook). flynpyntar press, 2008

27. Brolaski, Julian Talamantez. gowanus astropolis. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011

28. Brolaski, Julian Talamantez. Advice for Lovers. City Lights Press, 2012 

29. Broyles, Marianne Aweagon. The Red Window. West End Press, 2008 

30. Da’, Laura. The Tecumseh Motel (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies II, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2014

31. Davila, Ungelbah. Outlaw Neon (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies II, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2014

32. Dauenhauer, Nora Marks. Life Woven with Song (mixed-genre). University of Arizona

  Press/Sun Tracks Series,  2000, Hardcover

33. Dauenhauer, Nora Marks. Life Woven with Song (mixed-genre). University of Arizona

  Press/Sun Tracks Series,  2000, Paperback
34. Dauenhauer, Nora Marks. Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of

  Sitka, 1802 and 1804 (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature/mixed genre/bilingual/co-written).

  University of Washington Press, 2008, Hardcover

35. Dauenhauer, Nora Marks. Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of

  Sitka, 1802 and 1804 (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature/mixed genre/bilingual/co-written).

  University of Washington Press, 2008, Paperback 

36. Diaz, Natalie. When My Brother was an Aztec. Copper Canyon Press, 2012

37. Driskill, Qwo-Li. Walking with Ghosts. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005

38. Erdrich, Heid. The Mother’s Tongue. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005

39. Erdrich, Heid. National Monuments. Michigan State University Press, 2008

40. Erdrich, Heid. Cell Traffic. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2012

41. Erdrich, Louise. Original Fire. Selected and New Poems. Harper Perennial, 2004 (note, the

  bulk of  this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)

42. Foerster, Jennifer. Leaving Tulsa. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2012

43. Frazier, Santee. Dark Thirty. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2009
44. Gansworth, Eric. Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon (poems/paintings). Michigan State University

  Press, 2000
45. Gansworth, Eric. Breathing the Monster Alive  (poems/paintings). Bright Hill Press Word &

  Image Series, 2006
46. Gansworth, Eric. A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings  

  (poems/paintings/memoir). Syracuse  University Press/Iroquois and Their Neighbors Series,

  2008
47. Gansworth, Eric. From the Western Door to the Lower East Side (poems in response to

  photographs by Milton Rogovin). White Pine Press, 2009  

48. Glancy, Diane. Primer of the Obsolete. University of Massachusetts Press, 2004

49. Glancy, Diane. Rooms. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005

50. Gomez, Rain C. Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory. Mongrel Empire Press, 201
51. Grover, Linda LeGarde. The Indian at Boarding School (chapbook). Tribal Writers Chapbook Series, Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2008
52. Harjo, Joy. A Map to the Next World: poems & tales  (poems/prose). W. W. Norton & Compan,  2000, Hardcover

53. Harjo, Joy. A Map to the Next World: poems & tales (poems/prose). W. W. Norton & Company,

  2000, Paperback

54. Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2004. W. W. Norton &

  Company, 2002, Hardcover (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000,

   included for new section)

55. Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2004. W. W. Norton &

  Company, 2004, Paperback (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000,

   included for new section)

56. Hedge Coke, Allison. Off-Season City Pipe. Coffee House Press, 2005

57. Hedge Coke, Allison. Blood Run. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2006 UK 2007 US

58. Hedge Coke, Allison. Burn. With Illustrations by Dustin Mater. MadHat Press, 2014

59. Hedge Coke, Allison. Streaming (with Audio CD). Coffee House Press, 2014

Also edited:

60. Hedge Coke, Allison. Effigies II. Hedge Coke. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2014 (four Native

   women poets: dg okpik, Cathy Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Mahealani Wendt)

61. Hedge Coke, Allison. Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas. Hedge Coke. University of  

   Arizona Press/Sun Tracks  Series, 2011 (86 Indigenous poets of the Americas 12 translators, 3      

   associate editors)

62. Hedge Coke, Allison. Effigies. Hedge Coke. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2009 (five Native

   women poets: Lara Mann, Ungelbah Davila, Kateri Menominee, Kristi Leora, Laura Da’)

63. Hedge Coke, Allison. Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry. Hedge Coke. ToTopos

  International Poetry/Oregon State  University, 2006

64. Hedge Coke, Travis. Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas (Associate Editor). Hedge

  Coke, Hedge Coke, et al. University of Arizona  Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2011 (86 Indigenous  

  poets of the Americas, 12 translators, 3 associate editors)

65. Henry, Gordon. The Failure of Certain Charms: and other disparate signs of life.    

  Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2008

66. Hill, Roberta. Cicadas: New & Selected Poems. Holy Cow! Press, 2013 (note, the bulk of this

  book,  selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)
67. Hoahwah, Sy. Split (chapbook). Inverted Press, University of Louisiana. 2001
68. Hoahwah, Sy. Black Knife (chapbook). Tribal Writers Chapbook Series, Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2005

69. Hoahwah, Sy. Velroy and the Madischie Mafia. West End Press, 2009   Louis Editor, 2008

70. Hoahwah, Sy. Night Cradle. USPOCO Books, 2011

71. Hogan, Linda. Rounding the Human Corners. Coffee House Press, 2008

72. Hogan, Linda. Indios: A Poem...A Performance (chapbook.) Wings Press, 2013

73. Hogan, Linda. Dark. Sweet. New & Selected Poems. Coffee House Press, 2014 (note, the bulk of

  this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)

74. Howe, LeAnne. Evidence of Red (poems/prose), Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005

75. Jumper, Elgin. Nightfall (chapbook). Tribal Writers Chapbook Series, Sequoyah National

  Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2006
76. Kalahele, Imaikalani. Kalahele. Kalamaku Press, 2002 

77. Kanae, Lisa. Sista Tongue. TinFish Press, 2001

78. Kane, Joan Naviyuk. Hyperboreal. University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series, 2013

79. Kane, Joan Naviyuk. The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife. University of Alaska Press/Alaska Poetry

  Series, 2012 

80. Kenny, Maurice. Carving Hawk: New and Selected Poems, 1956-2000. White Pine Press, 2002

81. Kenny, Maurice. The Mama Poems. White Pine Press, 200

83. Kihleng, Emelihter. My Urohs. Kahuaomanoa Press, 2008

84. Lajimodiere, Denise K. Dragonfly Dance. Michigan State University Press/American Indian

  Studies, 2010

85. Leora, Kristi. Dark Swimming (book inclusion) in Effigies II, Earthworks/Salt Publishing,

  Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2014

86. Littlecrow-Russell, Sara. The Secret Powers of Naming. University of Arizona Press/Sun    

  Tracks Series, 2006

87. Livingston, Chip. Museum of False Starts. Gival Press, 2010

88. Livingston, Chip. Crow-Blue, Crow-Black. NYQ Books, 2012

89. Livingston, Chip. Naming Ceremony. Lethe Press, 2014 

90. Long Soldier, Layli. Chromosomory (chapbook).  Q Ave Pres, 2010

91. Lopez, Casandra. Brother, Bullet (chapbook). Tribal Writers Chapbook Series, Sequoyah

  National Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2014

92. Louis, Adrian C. Ancient Acid Flashes Back. University of Nevada Press, 2000

93. Louis, Adrian C. Bone & Juice. Northwestern University Press, 2001

94. Louis, Adrian C. Evil Corn. Ellis Press, 2004

95. Louis, Adrian C. Deer Dreams (chapbook). Red Dragonfly Press, 2006

96. Louis, Adrian C. Logorrhea. Northwestern University Press, 2006, Paperback

97. Louis, Adrian C. Logorrhea. Northwestern University Press, 2006, Hardcover

98. Louis, Adrian C. Savage Sunsets. West End Press, 2012

Also edited:

99. Louis, Adrian C. Shedding Skins. Michigan State University Press, 2008 (with chapbooks by

  four Native men  poets)  

100. Mann, Lara. A Song of Ascents and Descents (book inclusion) in Effigies II, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2014
101. Matejka, Adrian. The Devil’s Garden. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2003. Paperback
102. Matejka, Adrian. Mixology. New York: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback
103. Matejka, AdrianThe Big Smoke. New York: Penguin Books, 2013. Paperback 
104. McAdams, Janet. The Island of Lost Luggage. University of Arizona Press/First Book Series,

  2000

105. McAdams, Janet.  Feral. Salt Publishing, 2007 

106. McDougall, Brandy Nālani. The Salt Wind: Ka Makani Paakai. Kuleana Oiwi Press, 2008

107. McDougall, Brandy Nālani. Return to the Kula House (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies,

  Earthworks/Salt Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2009

108. McGlennan, Molly. Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2010 

109. McMullin, Dan Taulapapa. A Drag Queen Named Pipi. (Chapbook). TinFish Press, 2004  

110. McMullin, Dan Taulapapa. Coconut Milk. University of Arizona Press, 2013

111. Menominee, Kateri. In Tongues (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies II, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2014

112. Midge, Tiffany. The Woman Who Married the Bear. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2014

113. Miranda, Deborah A. The Zen of La Llorona. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2005

114. Momaday, N. Scott. In the Bear’s House (poems, prose, art). University of New Mexico Press,

  2010, Hardcover

115. Momaday, N. Scott. In the Bear’s House (poems, prose, art). University of New Mexico Press,

  2010, Paperback

116. Momaday, N. Scott. Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems. University of New

  Mexico Press, 2011, Hardcover (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to

  2000, included for new section)

117. Momaday, N. Scott. Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems. University of New

  Mexico Press, 2011, Paperback (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to

  2000, included for new section)

118. Morgan, Phillip Caroll. The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store. Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, 2006

119. Niatum, Duane. The Crooked Beak of Love. West End Press, 2000

120. Niatum, Duane. The Pull of the Green Kite. Serif & Pixel Press, 2011

121. okpik, dg nanouk. In the Time of Okvik (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2009

122. okpik, dg nanouk. Corpse Whale. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2012

123. Ortiz, Simon. Out There Somewhere. University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2002

124. Paschen, Elise. Bestiary. Red Hen Press, 2009

125. Pacheco, Steve. Chapbook inclusion in Shedding Skins, Michigan State University Press,

  Adrian Louis Editor, 2008

126. Perez, Craig Santos. From Unincorporated Territory [Hacha]. Tinfish Press, 2008

127. Perez, Craig Santos. From Unincorporated Territory [Saina]. Omnidawn, 2010

128. Perez, Craig Santos. From Unincorporated Territory [Guma].  Omnidawn, 2014

129. Perez-Wendt, Mahealani. Uluhaimalama. Kuleana Oiwi Press, 2008

130. Perez-Wendt, Mahealani.  Papahanaumoku (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies,

  Earthworks/Salt Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2009

131. Rancourt, Suzanne. Billboard in the Clouds. Curbstone Books, 2004

132. Red Elk, Lois. Our Blood Remembers. Many Voices Press, 2011

133. Revard, Carter. How the Songs Come Down. Earthworks/Salt Publishing. 2005

134. Revilla, Noukahauoli. Say Throne. (Chapbook). TinFish, 2011

135. Rexford, Cathy Tagnak. Black Ice (chapbook inclusion) in Effigies, Earthworks/Salt

  Publishing, Allison Hedge Coke, editor, 2009

136. Ruiz, Cathy. Stirring Up the Water. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2008

137. Salisbury, Ralph. War in the Genes and other poems. WordTech Communications, 2006

138. Salisbury, Ralph. Blind Pumper at the Well. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2008

139. Salisbury, Ralph. Light from a Bullet Hole: new and selected poems, 1950-2008. Silverfish

  Review Press, 2009 (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000,  

  included for new section)

140. Salisbury, Ralph. Like the Sun in Storm. The Habit of Rainy Nights Press, 2012 

141. Savageau, Cheryl. Mother/Land. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2006

142. Shuck, Kim. Smuggling Cherokee. Greenfield Review, 2006

143. Sigo, Cedar. Thank you Letters (chapbook). Angry Dog, 2003

144. Sigo, Cedar. Selected Writings. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003

145. Sigo, Cedar. Selected Writings (Expanded Second Edition). Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005 

146. Sigo, Cedar. Expensive Magic (chapbook). House Press, 2008

147. Sigo, Cedar. Stranger in Town. City Lights, 2010

148. Sigo, Cedar. Music for Torching(chapbook). Lew Gallery Editions, 2010

149. Sigo, Cedar. Plains Pictograph (chapbook). Gasmeter Press, 2013

150. Sigo, Cedar. Language Arts. Wave Books, 2014

151. Sinavaina, Caroline. Alchemies of Distance. Subpress/TinFish, 2002

151. Sinavaina, Caroline. Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (chapbook, co-written).

  Subpress/TinFish Press 2006

152. Smoker, M. L. Another Attempt at Rescue. Hanging Loose Press, 2005

153. Stevens, James Thomas. Combing the Snakes from His Hair. Michigan State University Press.

  2002

154. Stevens, James Thomas. (Dis)Orient (chapbook). Palm Press, 2005

155. Stevens, James Thomas. Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (chapbook, co-written).    

  Subpress, 2005

156. Stevens, James Thomas. Bulle/Chimere (chapbook). First Intensity Press, 2006

157. Stevens, James Thomas. A Bridge Dead in the Water. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2007

158. Stevens, James Thomas. Of Kingdoms & Kangaroo (chapbook, co-written). First Intensity

  Press, 2008
159. Taitano, Lehua. A Bell Made of Stones. TinFish Press, 2013
160. Takehiro, Sage Uilani. Honua. Kahuaomanoa Press, 2007

161. Tamez, Margo.  Raven Eye.  University of Arizona Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2007

162. Tapahonso, Luci. A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories. University of Arizona Press/Sun

  Tracks Series, 2008

163. Tohe, Laura. Tseyi’/ Deep in the Rock: Reflections of Canyon de Chelly. University of Arizona

  Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2005

164. Travis, Rebecca Hatcher. Picked Apart the Bones. Chickasaw Press, 2009
165. Trask, Haunani-Kay. Night is a Shark Skin Drum. University of Hawai'i Press, 2002
166. Troupe, Quincy. Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems. Coffee House Press, 2002Hardcover (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)
167. Troupe, Quincy. Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems. Coffee House Press, 2002
Paperback (note, the bulk of this book, selected poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)
168. Troupe, Quincy. The Architecture of Language. Coffee House Press, 2006, Hardcover
169. Troupe, Quincy. The Architecture of Language. Coffee House Press, 2006, Paperback
170. Troupe, Quincy. Errançities. Coffee House Press, 2012, Hardcover
171. Troupe, Quincy.
Errançities. Coffee House Press, 2012, Paperback
172. Turcotte, Mark. Exploding Chippewas. TriQuarterly. 2002

173. Turner, Doyle D. Time is a Parlor Trick and other poems (chapbook). Tribal Writers

  Chapbook Series, Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2007

174. Vizenor, Gerald. Almost Ashore. Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2006 (note, the bulk of this

  book, selected haikus/poems are from prior to 2000, included for new section)

175. Vizenor, Gerald. Favor of Crows. Wesleyan Press, 2014 (note, the bulk of this book, selected

  haikus are from prior to 2000, included for new section)

176. Wall, Drucilla. The Geese at the Gates. Salmon Poetry, 2011

177. Warm Water, Luke. Chapbook inclusion in Shedding Skins, Michigan State University Press,

  Adrian Louis Editor, 2008

178. Warren, Steven. While a Hummingbird Sways (chapbook). Tribal Writers Chapbook Series,

 Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, 2011 

179. Waters, Joel. Chapbook inclusion in Shedding Skins, Michigan State University Press, Adrian

   Louis Editor, 2008

180. Westlake, Wayne. Westlake: Poems by Wayne Westlake. University of Hawai'i Press, 2010

181. White, Orlando. Bone Light. Red Hen Press, 2009

182. Wood, Karenne. Markings on Earth. University of Arizona Press/First Book Award

  Series, 2001

183. Wurth, Erika. Indian Trains. West End Press, 2007

184. Zepeda, Ofelia. Jewed ‘I-hoi/Earth Movements. Paper with Audio CD, Kore Press, 2005  

185. Zepeda, Ofelia. Where Clouds are Formed. University of Arizona Press/ Suntracks

  Series, 2008
 
 

Poetry Anthologies noted above

(with only Native inclusions and only poetry, no mixed-genre, no student editions, no self-pub):

 

Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Hedge Coke, ToTopos International Poetry/Oregon State

  University, 2006

Effigies II, Hedge Coke, Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2014 (four Native women poets: dg okpik,

  Cathy Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Mahealani Wendt)

Effigies, Hedge Coke, Earthworks/Salt Publishing, 2009 (five Native women poets: Lara Mann,

  Ungelbah Davila, Kateri Menominee, Kristi Leora, Laura Da’)

Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Hedge Coke, Hedge Coke, et al. University of Arizona

  Press/Sun Tracks Series, 2011 (86 Indigenous poets of the Americas 12 translators, 3 associate

  editors)

Shedding Skins, Louis, Michigan State University Press, 2008 (four Native men poets: Trevino Brings Plenty, Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water)