Poet Edyka Chilomé Performs “​​The Archive of Our Relation”

In honor of Native American History Month, NRDC asked five Indigenous poets to share original works of environmental poetry that speak directly to future generations. Their pieces grapple with grief and loss-from the construction of unnatural borders to the destruction caused by a warming world-while honoring their relationships to the plants, animals, and topography of their ancestral land.
Edyka Chilomé is a queer, Indigenous, mestiza cultural worker, writer, poet, and child of migrant activists from the occupied lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) as well as Lenca (El Salvador) people. She was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism and was deeply formed by the works of Black feminist writers as a reindigenizing woman in diaspora. Chilomé is the author of two collections of poetry: She Speaks Poetry and El Poemario del Colibrí: The Humming-bird Poems. She currently lives east of the Arkikosa River (North Texas) in a 200-square-foot tiny house with her animal companion.
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