Orlando White
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is originally from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e.
He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Talking Stick Native Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere.
He has taught at Brown University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, The Art Center Design College, and has been a visiting writer at Colgate University and Naropa University. He teaches at Diné College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona. Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009) is his first book.
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Bone Light is in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, it is part of a feature on debut poetry for 2009.
Also, new poetry appears in the current issues of The Kenyon Review, along with a review, and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics.
Check out emerging poet, Layli Long Soldier, and her first chapbook titled, Chromosomory, order it at Q Ave Press. Eleni Sikelianos calls her poetry, “the most moving field of metamorphosis, where we move between becoming and undoing and being, winds rustling the words into action...”
And, Native art minimalist, Donna R. Charging, whose artwork titled “he” is the book cover for Bone Light.
Listen to some poetry and Q & A at Fishouse. Read some new poetry at Salt Hill Journal and Talking Stick Native Arts Quarterly. Want to know a bit more about my poetry and I, check out the, Santa Fe Reporter, and The IAIA Chronicle.
