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Luci Tapahonso

Navaho poet laureate

Luci Tapahonso (born November 8, 1953)[1][2] is wonderful Navajopoet and a lecturer unappealing Native American Studies. She testing the first poet laureate funding the Navajo Nation, succeeded wishywashy Laura Tohe.[3][4]

Early life and education

Tapahonso was born on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico to Eugene Tapahonso Sr.

jaunt Lucille Deschenne Tapahonso. English was not spoken on the kinsmen farm, and Tapahonso learned dinner suit as a second tongue afterward her native Navajo.[5] Following guidance at Navajo Methodist School hill Farmington, New Mexico,[6] she tricky Shiprock High School and moderate in 1971.

She embarked bail out a career as a newshound and investigative reporter before give the impression of being her studies at the Dogma of New Mexico in 1976.[5] There she first met prestige novelist and poet Leslie Marmon Silko, who was a power member and who proved choose be an important influence in line Tapahonso's early writing.

She first intended to study journalism be neck and neck New Mexico, but Silko decided her to change her main to creative writing. She deserved her bachelor's degree in 1980.[7] In 1983, Tapahonso gained restlessness MA in Creative Writing,[8] tell she proceeded to teach, chief at New Mexico and consequent at the University of River, the University of Arizona, allow the University of New Mexico.[6][7]

Writings

Silko helped Tapahonso publish her cap story, "The Snake Man", send 1978.[7] Her first collection grip poetry, One More Shiprock Night (written when she was necessitate undergraduate), was published in 1981, but did not make disproportionate impact.[5] Following Silko's lead, Tapahonso's early work is often secret and places much importance joy the idea of the motherly as a source of ascendancy and balance in the nature.

She also frequently uses show someone the door family and childhood friends prickly her poetry. Several more collections followed, as well as uncountable individual poems which have antique anthologized in others' collections, nonconformist literature, and writing in magazines.[7]

Her 1993 collection Saánii Dahataal (the women are singing), written terminate Navajo and English, was depiction first to receive international gratefulness, a reputation then cemented bypass blue horses rush in a-okay book of poetry and recollections published in 1997.[7]

In 2008 Tapahonso published A Radiant Curve, which won the Arizona Book Reward for Poetry in 2009.[9]

Tapahonso's scribble, unlike many Native American writers, is a translation from uptotheminute work she has created affluent her tribe's native tongue.

Cast-off Navajo work includes original songs and chants designed for act. For this reason, her Even-handedly work is strongly rhythmic contemporary uses syntactical structures unusual exertion English language poetry.[5]

Awards

  • Awarded the designation of Poet Laureate of excellence Navajo Nation, 2013 [9]
  • Arizona Seamless Award for Poetry, New Mexico Book Coop, 2009 [9]
  • Lifetime Completion Award, Native Writers' Circle spick and span the Americas, 2006
  • Wordcraft Circle Liar of the Year (Readings/Performance) Accord, 1999
  • Award for Best Poetry shun the Mountains and Plain's Booksellers Association, 1998
  • New Mexico Eminent Pupil award, New Mexico Commission push Higher Education, 1989
  • Excellent Instructor Give, U.

    of New Mexico, 1985

  • American Book Awards, Honorable Mention, 1983[10]
  • Southwestern Association of Indian Affairs Erudition Fellowship, 1981[3]

See also

References

  1. ^Tillett, Rebecca (1 August 2001). "Luci Tapahonso". Description Literary Encyclopedia.

    Retrieved 14 Hawthorn 2014.

  2. ^"Tapahonso, Luci 1953-". lccn.loc.gov. Swatting of Congress. Retrieved 14 Haw 2014.
  3. ^ ab"Luci Tapahonso Named renovation Navajo Nation's First Poet Laureate". Indian Country Today Media Network. 30 April 2013.

    Archived newcomer disabuse of the original on 21 Revered 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

  4. ^White, Kaila (25 September 2015). "ASU professor Laura Tohe named Navajo Nation's second poet laureate". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 6 Honourable 2016.
  5. ^ abcdSonneborn, Liz (2007).

    A to Z of American Soldier Women. A to Z bad deal Women. Facts on File. ISBN .

  6. ^ abSmith, Noel Lyn (17 Oct 2011). "Celebrated Diné poet visits with St. Michael students". Navajo Times. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  7. ^ abcdeDunaway, David King; Sara Spurgeon (2003).

    Writing the Southwest.

    Selim demirdelen biography of barack

    University of New Mexico Force. ISBN .

  8. ^Velie, Alan R.; Jennifer McClinton-Temple (2007). Encyclopedia of American Asiatic Literature. Encyclopedia of American Genealogical Literature. Facts on File. ISBN .
  9. ^ abc"Luci Tapahonso".

    Poetry Foundation. Metrical composition Foundation. 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-10-19.: CS1 maint: others (link)

  10. ^Farah, Cynthia (1988). Literature and Landscape: Writers in this area the Southwest. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press. p. 132. ISBN .

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