So a lot of these images are kept for – they serve a certain purpose. They can open up a moment, like that crow. It gives a place of peace. That’s ho… - Joy Harjo

The question that comes up when you write about trauma is, are you retraumatizing? Are you retraumatizing by writing about trauma? That’s a good question. I remember the writer, poet Meridel Le Sueur, social activist in the ‘30, calling to tell me when I was a young woman, she said: “I wrote so beautifully about terrible things that happened. And was I wrong to do that?

"Breath is our entrance into story making — it is a promise. It is a constant ritual that we all share, and it is essential in poetry."-Joy Harjo

Our class and our generation really shifted Native art, in the contemporary world art scene.