"Tumbleweeds"
Poem--
"Tumbleweeds"
by Layli Long Soldier
Tumbleweeds
Concept and design by Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota)
Photography by Mikayla Carpio Pattion (Oglala Lakota) and Boderra Joe (Diné)
Pictured: Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and Chance White (Oglala Lakota / Diné)
Field Notes
Tumbleweed Project, September 2020
The Poet: Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.