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I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

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I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

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I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

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Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

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My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

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It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

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I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

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We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

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I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 9th, 1951

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