For the descendants of those Cherokees who evaded forced removal by the U

Jim Denomie (La Courte Oreilles Band

Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century

yet more complicated and salient issues are at the heart of these poems

community organizing

Light as Light Molalla For the descendants of thoseLight As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortizs first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume celebrate the wonders and joy of love in the present while also looking back with both humorous and serious reflections on youth and the stories, scenes, people, and places that shape a persons life. Light As Light brims with giddy, wistful long distance love poems that offer a dialogue between the speaker and his beloved. Written in Ortizs