Bojan Louis is a member of the Navajo Nation—Naakai Dine’é; Ashiihí; Ta’neezahnii; Bilgáana. He is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer and has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony. He is currently Poetry and Production Editor at RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, & Humanities. He is the author of the nonfiction chapbook Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona (Guillotine Series, 2012). His first poetry collection, Currents, will be published by BkMk Press in 2017.
Poetry
Winter 2010
Baptism for the Dead
don’t take my name to the water a soul with no body to enter the dead don’t share skin with the living—no conduit between don’t set me in afterlife my […]
Poetry
Winter 2010
Red Dirt
I work to be more than roots rooted in dirt, fed through days of heat and dust— evaporating into a brittle husk, withdrawn and left as only remains. Whether stirred […]
Poetry
Winter 2010
Electricity
The morning roundup’s a current leaking to earth without interruption or fault. Above busted street lights the sun buzzes to a cuffed line of deportees; the sheriff’s imbalanced authority. Any […]