Poets & Writers

The Anthologist

s U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo envisioned a project of “mapping the United States based on the poetry of Native Nations poets.” That vision (Norton, May 2021). Contributors Jake Skeets, Layli Long Soldier, and others consider themes of place and displacement, visibility and resistance, creating “a new map, together where poetry is sung.”

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