
July/August 2022
Land Acknowledgments; Cover Artist: Weshoyot AlvitreBeth PiatoteThis land is our becoming.
- Jake Skeets
- Ariana Benson
- Toni Giselle Stuart
- Arthur Sze
- Franklin K. R. Cline
From this Issue
Poem
By Allison Akootchook Warden
before we bring this meeting to order
we want to acknowledge ourselves, the Kaktoviġmiut
yes, Siliun, this is how they are doing things nowadays
we are doing it right
we acknowledge ourselves, the Kaktoviġmiut
we are the people of this island and of the mountains and lands around us
and all our traditional hunting areas
since …
we want to acknowledge ourselves, the Kaktoviġmiut
yes, Siliun, this is how they are doing things nowadays
we are doing it right
we acknowledge ourselves, the Kaktoviġmiut
we are the people of this island and of the mountains and lands around us
and all our traditional hunting areas
since …
Poem
By Beth Piatote
I celebrate myself
And what I hereby cede you shall hereby cede,
For the country relinquished by me as good is relinquished by you
I loafe and convey to the United States
All the right, title and interest ... in my country, occupied and claimed,
I give and grieve ... meeting on spears of summer grass
I celebrate myself
And what…
And what I hereby cede you shall hereby cede,
For the country relinquished by me as good is relinquished by you
I loafe and convey to the United States
All the right, title and interest ... in my country, occupied and claimed,
I give and grieve ... meeting on spears of summer grass
I celebrate myself
And what…

Table of Contents
POEMS
- Esther Belin
- Allison Akootchook Warden
- Manny Loley
- Beth Piatote
- Dean Rader
- Abigail Chabitnoy
- Valerie Wallace
- Elise Paschen
- Gabriel Dunsmith
- Anthony Cody
- Max Early
- Franklin K.R. Cline
- Michael Thompson
- Megha Rao
- Jayant Kashyap
- Hao Guang Tse
- Micaela Merryman
- Halee Kirkwood
- Ariana Benson
- Arthur Sze
- Michelle Whitstone
- Tina Deschenie
- Majda Gama
- Ibe Liebenberg
- Carol Moldaw
- Toni Giselle Stuart
- Jake Skeets
- Laura Da’
- Jay Wieners
- Yvonne
- Jennifer Militello
- Krysten Hill
- Jessica Kim
- Khải Đơn
- Yaccaira Salvatierra
- Bai Juyi
- Tim Tim Cheng
- Adedayo Agarau
COMMENT
- Esther Belin, Arthur Sze
CONTRIBUTORS
- Adedayo Agarau
- Esther Belin
- Ariana Benson
- Abigail Chabitnoy
- Tim Tim Cheng
- Franklin K.R. Cline
- Anthony Cody
- Laura Da’
- Tina Deschenie
- Gabriel Dunsmith
- Max Early
- Majda Gama
- Krysten Hill
- Bai Juyi
- Jayant Kashyap
- Jessica Kim
- Halee Kirkwood
- Ibe Liebenberg
- Manny Loley
- Micaela Merryman
- Jennifer Militello
- Carol Moldaw
- Elise Paschen
- Beth Piatote
- Dean Rader
- Megha Rao
- Yaccaira Salvatierra
- Jake Skeets
- Toni Giselle Stuart
- Arthur Sze
- Michael Thompson
- Hao Guang Tse
- Valerie Wallace
- Allison Akootchook Warden
- Michelle Whitstone
- Jay Wieners
- Yvonne
- Khải Đơn