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<span dir="auto" style="text-align: start; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets, announced the 2022 cohort of Fellows selected to participate in the national poetry organization’s Inaugural Retreat to be
held in Washington DC April 25-29. The selected poets, who come from diverse Indigenous and Native Nations backgrounds and reflect an array of poetic styles and interests, include:</span></div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kenzie Allen. Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tacey M. Atsitty. Diné.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anthony Ceballos. Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Leauna Christensen. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kalilinoe Detwiler. Kanaka ʻŌiwi.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kinsale Drake. Diné.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Max Early. Pueblo of Laguna.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boderra Joe. Diné.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Halee Kirkwood. Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Manny Loley. Diné.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Casandra López. California Indian (Tongva/Luiseño) and Chicana.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rena Priest. Lummi Nation.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ha'åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas. Chamoru and Samoan.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kristina Togafau. Western Shoshone Samoan.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arianne True. Choctaw, Chickasaw.</span></div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Annie Wenstrup. Dena’ina.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">These emerging writers will gather with distinguished Indigenous faculty, In-Na-Po leaders, and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo in April at the Library
of Congress (LOC) for the retreat. The week’s events will include workshops, craft talks, an introduction to the collections of the LOC and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), and readings by faculty and fellows. Throughout, the retreat will
embrace Indigenous values and aesthetics, and encourage participants in their use of Indigenous languages. Writers will receive guidance on the practice and business of poetry and will have the opportunity to share finished poems in several venues.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Founded in 2020 by Anishinaabe poet and professor Kimberly Blaeser, the non-profit In-Na-Po is a member of the Poetry Coalition of the Academy of
American Poets. The organization mission statement describes it as “a national poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and
future.”</span></div>
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<span dir="auto" style="text-align:start"><span><a href="https://sites.uwm.edu/in-na-po/"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Na Po | Indigenous Nations Poets (uwm.edu)</span></a></span></span></div>
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