Poet Jake Skeets Performs “K.yah | Saad: Toward an Open Poetics”

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.
Poet Jake Skeets teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, located within the Navajo Nation. His first book is Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series.
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[@annikakandoll7890]

This is such a beautiful poem. I found it through a college class, and I'm really grateful for that.

[@cristydlcMN]

Beautiful