Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. For many, this holiday embodies a mixture of emotions: celebration, grief, remembrance, pride.
Poetry Daily seeks to honor the gradation of these experiences by highlighting the sovereignty, histories, and voices of Indigenous peoples.
To commemorate the holiday, we invite you to read this special curation of 5 poems from Poetry Daily’s archive: a small sample of the diversity and innovation of Indigenous poetics.
Don’t worry. The heart knows the way though there may be high-rises, interstates, checkpoints, armed soldiers, massacres, wars, and those who will despise you because they despise themselves.
Poetry Daily is grateful to call these poems part of the rich tapestry of poetry we’ve published in the last 27 years. And although we are a digital organization, many of our staff live and work on the traditional lands of the Doeg and Piscataway peoples. These tribes’ love and stewardship of this land has made it possible for Poetry Daily to do this work.
Thank you, dear reader, for being here with us. We hope these poems offer you a few moments of reflection, celebration, and hope.
