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 2026 Creative Individual Grant, Mass Cultural Council
2024 and 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow 2026 Pollentongue Manuscript Intensive
2026 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing- Emerging Writer Fellowship
Readings and Commissioned Work
Readings and Commissioned Work
I am available for public readings and commissioned work. Selected experience includes:
April 23, 2026
Reading for Revolutionary Legacies, Concord Museum, Mass.
March 2026
"Papscanee Island" poem at Albany Unitarian Universalist Church exhibit of Mohican Writers Circle, Albany NY
November 19th 2025
Reading for Bard Indigenous Students Association "Present Presence" event
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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