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Esther Belin:

Esther G. Belin is an author of two collections of poetry: Of Cartography, and From the Belly of My Beauty, winner of the 2000 American Book Award; and is one of the co-editors of The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, winner of the 2022 American Book Award.  She teaches in the Native American and Indigenous Studies department at Fort Lewis College and is a Poetry faculty mentor in Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing MFA program.

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Senator John Pinto Library (Diné College Shiprock Campus)

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Senator John Pinto Library (Diné College Shiprock Campus)

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Diné College Libraries: Senator John Pinto Library: Home

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This guide is to promote the resources and services at the Senator John Pinto Library.

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Raise awareness around literacy on the Navajo Nation by providing free book to the Diné Community. This event is made possible by NDN Girls Book Club.

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Raise awareness around literacy on the Navajo Nation by providing free book to the Diné Community. This event is made possible by NDN Girls Book Club.

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NDN Girls Book Club is a 501(c)3literary organization that hostsfree community workshops forNative people, especially Nativeyouth & girls, in poetry, zine-making, editing, fiction,nonfiction, and Native literaturetalks. We aim to make accessibility toquality Indigenous literature areality for all ages by sendingout free books and literary carepackages.

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Rachael Johnson:

Rachael Johnson is a disabled, neurodivergent Diné writer/poet from the Navajo Nation. She belongs to Táchii’nii, the Red Running into the Water people, and is born for Kinyaa’áanii, the Towering House clan. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico

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Byron Aspaas:

BYRON F. ASPAAS. Raised within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah. Aspaas’s first published work was included in Yellow Medicine Review and since then his writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Aspaas’s writing revisits the destruction of sacred land and engages his readers in a dialogue about preserving Diné culture and land. Byron is faculty at San Juan College’s English Department and Western Colorado University’s Creative Writing Program.

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NDN GIRLS BOOK CLUB is partnering with ABALONE MOUNTAIN PRESS, 4KINSHIP, AND CELLULARONE to host an incredible four-stop literary journey through the Navajo Nation.

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Amanda Tachine:

Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies.

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Shaina Nez:

Shaina A. Nez is Táchii’nii born for Áshįįhi. She serves Diné College as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English. She is a doctoral candidate in Justice Studies with the School of Social Transformation and Inquiry at Arizona State University. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her work has appeared in 'A Gathering of Native Voices' (The Massachusetts Review), 'Nonwhite and Women: 131 Micro-Essays on Being in the World,' winner of the 2023 Silver IPPY award in the category of Adult Multicultural Nonfiction, 'The Languages of our Love: An Indigenous Love and Sex anthology' (Abalone Mountain Press), Issue 14: Indigenous Ecopoetry (Green Linden Press) and elsewhere.

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Writing Art Installations About Navajo Culture Navajo Poetry

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About My Body is an Ill-fitting Costume:

Rachael's elegant, devastating poetry confronts, head-on, many forms of trauma, including ancestral trauma, child abuse, racism, (in)justice, ongoing colonization, and sexual assault, through vivid, visceral depictions of the body, personhood, motherhood, and the natural and animal worlds. Trauma, dissociation, and fracturing of the self shapes her intimate photography. The photos speak in conversation with the poems, rendering post-traumatic stress, chronic illnesses, and sensual, harsh realities through stark colors and contrast. Layered metaphors of fire, bone, time, pain, metal, water, and (dis)embodiment sustain the arc throughout the book, such as "I beat myself against a stone to strike a spark, but his hands crumbled into fists, grappled, flung me to the linoleum floor. I was mute coal giving off residual heat." Rachael's poetry resonates at the soul-level, and delves into distortions of time, where the pasts are always present.

Rachael Johnson is an indigenous, androgynous-gender-fluid, disabled Diné writer/poet from the Navajo Nation . She belongs to Táchii'nii, the Red Running into the Water people, and is born for Kinyaa'áanii, the Towering House clan. Her prose and poetry have been published in The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, Anti-Heroin Chic, Wordgathering, Writers Resist, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. Her essay, "Nowhere Place," won Prairie Schooner's 2017 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest, a Glenna Luschei Award, and was recognized as a 2018 Notable Essay by Best American Essays. T he Diné Reader: an Anthology of Navajo Literature, in which her poems were published, received a 2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. She is a kajukenbo mixed martial arts student. She is currently writing a memoir and a novel.

About My Body is an Ill-fitting Costume:

Rachael's elegant, devastating poetry confronts, head-on, many forms of trauma, including ancestral trauma, child abuse, racism, (in)justice, ongoing colonization, and sexual assault, through vivid, visceral depictions of the body, personhood, motherhood, and the natural and animal worlds. Trauma, dissociation, and fracturing of the self shapes her intimate photography. The photos speak in conversation with the poems, rendering post-traumatic stress, chronic illnesses, and sensual, harsh realities through stark colors and contrast. Layered metaphors of fire, bone, time, pain, metal, water, and (dis)embodiment sustain the arc throughout the book, such as "I beat myself against a stone to strike a spark, but his hands crumbled into fists, grappled, flung me to the linoleum floor. I was mute coal giving off residual heat." Rachael's poetry resonates at the soul-level, and delves into distortions of time, where the pasts are always present.

Rachael Johnson is an indigenous, androgynous-gender-fluid, disabled Diné writer/poet from the Navajo Nation . She belongs to Táchii'nii, the Red Running into the Water people, and is born for Kinyaa'áanii, the Towering House clan. Her prose and poetry have been published in The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, Anti-Heroin Chic, Wordgathering, Writers Resist, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. Her essay, "Nowhere Place," won Prairie Schooner's 2017 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest, a Glenna Luschei Award, and was recognized as a 2018 Notable Essay by Best American Essays. T he Diné Reader: an Anthology of Navajo Literature, in which her poems were published, received a 2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. She is a kajukenbo mixed martial arts student. She is currently writing a memoir and a novel.

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My Body is an Ill-Fitting Costume Chapbook - Abalone Mountain Press

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About My Body is an Ill-fitting Costume: Rachael's elegant, devastating poetry confronts, head-on, many forms of trauma, including ancestral trauma, child abuse, racism, (in)justice, ongoing colonization, and sexual assault, through vivid, visceral depictions of the body, personhood, motherhood, and the natural and animal worlds. Trauma, dissociation, and fracturing of the self shapes her intimate photography.

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Lambert Martin, Jr, is a wolf. Born in Shiprockland, NM, as a wolf boy turned man, he stalks the dirt roads and canal arroyos searching for creative inspiration to sustain his lycanthrope tendencies to consume large quantities of words and word fragments with animalistic verve. He currently serves as a writing tutor at Dine College, where he is also pursuing his BFA in Creative Writing.

Yá’át’ééh! Shí éí Akeemi Martinez yinishyé. Tsi'naajinii nishłį́. Tódich'ii'nii bashishchiin. Táchii'nii e’da shi cheii. Chishi Haltsooí dashinalí. Ákót’éego Diné Asdzáán nishłį́. I am an interdisciplinary Artist currently living and making art on the Rez in Bááháálí. In my creative process I aim to be sovereign and curious about life; I use this intrigue to fan my passion for creating and imagining.Lambert Martin, Jr, was born and raised in Shiprockland, NM. He currently serves as a writing tutor at Dine College, where is also pursuing his BFA in Creative Writing.

Chris Hoshnic is a Bachelors of Arts in English student from Arizona State University. He has been a recipient of the 2023 Indigenous Prize Poet for Hayden’s Ferry Review and has work featured in Yellow Medicine Review and El Portal Journal. Hoshnic has also been a Translator of Diné Bizaad at Thousand Languages Project, a Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing initiative. He was also a 2023 Screenwriting Fellow with the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar and a 2023 UC-Berkeley Arts Research Center Poetry & the Senses Fellow.

Roanna “Rowie Shondeen” Shebala is a Native American of the Dine (Navajo Tribe) and Shiwi (Zuni

Tribe). Shebala is Tsenjikini (Cliff Dweller clan), Born for Deeshchii’nii (Start of the Red Streak clan). Her maternal grandparents are the Tótsohnii (Big Water Clan), and her paternal grandparents are the Naasht’ezhi Dine’e’- Dakkya:kwe (Zuni-Frog Clan). Currently living in Albuquerque, NM. Shebala earned her B.S. in Theater at Northern Arizona University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.

Danielle Shandiin Emerson is a Diné writer from Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. Her clans are Tłaashchi’i (Red Cheek People Clan), born for Ta’neezaahníí (Tangled People Clan). She has a B.A. in Education Studies and a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. Danielle writes fiction, poetry, plays, and creative essays.

Shannel Garcia is a twenty-seven-year-old Diné and Hispanic student and writer from Shiprock, New Mexico. Shannel's pronouns are she/her. She is Áshįįhí (Salt People Clan) and born for Tódích’íi’nii (Bitter Water People Clan).

Danielle Burbank, originally from Crystal, NM, currently resides in Farmington. Interests include libraries, children’s literature and cats.

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5/20/22 Amber McCrary 5/20/22

The Trickster Riots Book Release Party!

The first full-length poetry collection from Abalone Mountain Press hits shelves June 1, and you’re invited to celebrate with us! “The Trickster Riots” Book Release Party is Saturday, June 4, at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore from 6-9 p.m.

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Pre-order Desert Teeth by Boderra Joe

*BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT from Abalone Mountain Press! Pre-order link now open
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Desert Teeth by Boderra Joe
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ABOUT: Landscape and perspective flood Boderra Joe’s Desert Teeth, a collection of poetry that unfolds the wakening shift of scarred violence affecting native people and land for centuries, where alcohol and uranium, two of many elements, continue to take the lives of our relatives. Each poem lingers and holds the face of the reader through deep explorations of grief, family, identity, and love. These poems walk out on their own with the memories and images that flicker by, like a thought too frightened to talk. The vulnerability and rawness in each poem expands the perspective, longing for closure, acceptance, and understanding. Each poem lives in language and landscape, all while the haunting violence interferes. Beauty has its way of revealing itself.

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hummingbird heart zine now available in Abalone Mountain Press shop!

“hummingbird heart” is a zine about inversion of the cishet white, male gaze, alienation, desire, loneliness, queerness, and other “ness”es.

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Zine announcement!

Eep! This one was hard to keep quiet about! We are so happy to announce the hummingbird heart zine by Kinsale Drake and Alice Mao! They both made this beautiful zine, poetry is by Kinsale and illustrations by Alice. hummingbird heart will be available in the Abalone Mountain Press store next Tuesday (03/29/22) ✍🏾✨💖 #zine#poetryzine#abalonemountainpress#hummingbirdheart

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THE LANGUAGES OF OUR LOVE: AN INDIGENOUS LOVE AND SEX ANTHOLOGY Book Announcement

We are so excited to share our book announcement for THE LANGUAGES OF OUR LOVE: AN INDIGENOUS LOVE AND SEX ANTHOLOGY which will be published by Abalone Mountain Press. Release date is set for July 26th, 2022. Thank you all so much for your submissions and we are stoked to showcase so many amazing poets, writers, storytellers, and artists!!!

💋💖🍓✨#indigenouslove#anthology#nativevoices#nativebooks

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BOOK COVER REVEAL for The Trickster Riots!

BOOK COVER REVEAL for The Trickster Riots! Poems are by the fabulous Taté Walker. Illustrations AND COVER created by Ohíya Walker <3 Pre-order your copy today at the Abalone Mountain Press store!
Taté Walker (they/them) is a Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. They are an award-winning Two Spirit storyteller for outlets like "The Nation," "Everyday Feminism," "Native Peoples,” “Apartment Therapy,” "Indian Country Today," and "ANMLY."
Ohíya Walker (they/them) is a Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and is also Red Lake Ojibwe and Mvskoke Creek. They are an award-winning 13-year-old nonbinary painter and graphic artist combining contemporary and traditional imagery and mediums.
#poetry #Indigenous #Lakota #Ojibwe #TwoSpirit #LGBT2QIA+#nativevoices#nativepoet#indigenouspoet#abalonemountainpress

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Indigeneity and disability justice zine DEADLINE EXTENDED

Indigeneity and disability justice zine DEADLINE EXTENDED

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The Trickster Riots by Taté Walker

🕷Abalone Mountain Press BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 🕷 Our first full length poetry book release will be by the unstoppable Taté Walker titled THE TRICKSTER RIOTS (Spring 2022)🕷 The Trickster Riots is a lyrical study of a Lakota Winyan Witko (Two Spirit) shedding the expectations of what it means to be Indigenous and exploring the responsibilities of being a good relative. Stay tuned for excerpts, readings and more from Taté Walker.
#nativepoetry#tricksterriots#lakota#twospirit#indigenouspoetry#abalonemountainpress

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Abalone Mountain Press welcomes two new interns!

Abalone Mountain Press is excited to announce we officially have two interns for spring 2022!!! Meet Chael Moore and Sheena Wahid. They have been been so helpful since they have started 💖

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Desert Teeth Book Announcement!

✨Abalone Mountain Press BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are happy to announce DESERT TEETH by Boderra Joe will be released by Abalone Mountain Press this Fall. This full length poetry collection is sure not to disappoint. Desert teeth is from the point of view of a Diné person and the land they come from (Twin Lakes, NM). Book description coming soon!

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Episode six: On growing up O’odham with Ruben Cu:k Ba’ak

In this episode we discuss use of names through colonization, connecting back to tribal (Tohono O'odham ) roots, addiction, native masculinity and growing up on the reservation in Southern Arizona.

TW:Drug use, Childhood abuse & assault

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June Writing Prompt Giveaway winner!

Congratulations for our June Writing Prompt Giveaway winner, Jessica Benally! Thank you Jessica for your piece about road maps. We love the imagery and connection to land and memory in this piece.

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ABALONE WRITING CIRCLE

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We are so excited to share our book announcement for THE LANGUAGES OF OUR LOVE: AN INDIGENOUS LOVE AND SEX ANTHOLOGY which will be published by Abalone Mountain Press. Release date is set for July 26th, 2022. Thank you all so much for your submissions and we are stoked to showcase so many amazing poets, writers, storytellers, and artists!!!

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DAACBI READERS

5:00-5:05- Akeemi Martinez

5:05-5:10- Cara Talamante

5:10-5:15- Shannel Garcia

5:15-5:20-Danielle Burbank

5:20-5:25-Lambert Martin

5:25-5:30-Danielle Emerson

5:35-5:40-Chris Hoshnic

5:40-5:45-Rowie