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The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978) [2] is a Pulitzer Prize -winning [3] Mojave American poet, [4] language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham. [4] She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
Ada Limón. Joy Harjo ( / ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ / HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms (after Robert Pinsky ).
A snake in her mouth: poems 1974–96. nila northSun is a Native American poet and tribal historian. northSun's gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets. She is often considered an influential writer in the second wave of the Native American ...
Native American pieces of literature come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Oral traditions include not only narrative story-telling, but also the songs, chants, and poetry used for rituals and ceremonies.
The Song of Hiawatha. Hiawatha and Minnehaha, a bronze sculpture created by Jacob Fjelde in 1912 near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named ...
University of Arizona (MA) Gloria Bird (born 1951) is a Native American poet, essayist, teacher and a member of the Spokane Tribe in Washington State. [1] Gloria spreads her work not only by writing for her but all Native American people. [2] In her work, Bird’s main priority is to question and diminish harmful stereotypes placed on Native ...
James Phillip Welch Jr. (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet, [1] considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in ...