a poetics of reclamation
a poetics of reclamation
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In my writing practice, I address erasures and silences in the archives while chronicling a reconnection to homeland and conducting place-based poetics in Mohican and Munsee lands in the Northeast. My docu-poems turn to the land as ancestor and center first-person accounts. They offer a vantage point to observe and listen, critique, witness, offer care and repair. I am currently working on revising my manuscript for publication.
You can read more about my approach in this feature from Albany Times-Union.
Honors
Honors
2025 Forge Project Fellow
2024 and 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow
Readings and Commissioned Work
Readings and Commissioned Work
I am available for public readings and commissioned work. Selected clients and experience includes:
October 17th, 2025
Reading for Indigenous Poetics Forum/ Poet's House, NYC
September 17-18th 2025
Reading for Indigenous Equinox Gathering/ NYU Center CIRCL, NYC
August 1st 2025
Reading for Indigenous Nations Poets/ Poetry Project, NYC
April 6-13th 2024
"Once and Still Upon this Land" poem commissioned for Returning Home exhibit curated by Olivia Tencer and Melina Roise for Rethinking Place: Bard on Mahicantuk / Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
May 8th 2023
"The Land Remembers: Blood, Soil, Spring" poem commissioned for Africana235 Teach-In, curated by Dr. Allison Guess/ Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
Education
Education
May 2025
MFA (Creative Writing)
Institute of American Indian Arts
Community
Community
Enrolled Member, Stockbridge-Munsee Community
I am proud to be a co-founder and member of Mohican Writers Circle
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