IN-NA-PO Presents 2025 Fellow Readings with emcee Nicole Wallace

Join us for Night Two of our Fellow Readings, Friday Night hosted by The Poetry Project

About this Event

Emcee: Nicole Wallace

Noelani Piters

Noelani Piters is a writer living in San Francisco. She is a 2025 VONA fellow, and her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, Poetry, and swamp pink.

Megan Dorame

Megan Dorame is Tongva, indigenous to the Greater Los Angeles area. She holds a BA in anthropology and Native American studies from the University of Oklahoma. She was a PEN Emerging Voices fellow in 2020 and her work has appeared in The Offing, The Los Angeles Times and the Netflix series, City of Ghosts. She lives and writes in Santa Ana, California.

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson)

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is a citizen of Chickasaw Nation. A fluent speaker of Chikashshanompaꞌ, he writes bilingual poetry on the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Ada, Oklahoma.

Owen Oliver

Owen Oliver (Quinault / Isleta Pueblo) comes from the people of the Lower Columbia River, Salish Sea, and Southwest Pueblos of Isleta. His art focuses on witnessing the Salish Sea through potlatch culture. In 2021, he published the Indigenous Walking Tour of the University of Washington. He graduated with a MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Boderra Joe

Boderra Joe is a Diné poet, journalist, photographer, and teacher. She is the author of Desert Teeth (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022). She teaches at To'Hajiilee Community School as a high school English teacher.

Kateri Menomine

Kateri Menominee is from the small anchorage of Bay Mills. Michigan. She is enrolled in Gnoozhekaning and is Anishinaabe. Her chapbook is called Effigies II and she enjoys listening to lo-fi music and playing video games.

Zadok (Ethan Milner)

E.J. Zadok is an Afro-Anishinaabe poet and citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians. He creates pseudo-epistolary works of ecopoetry, experimenting with form and convention to create emergent styles inspired by 21st century wilderness and alternative music.

Kalilinoe Detwiler

Kalilinoe Detwiler is a Kanaka Maoli artist-writer whose work is published in Yellow Medicine Review and Haymarket Books, and showcased at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, and the Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase.

Bonney Hartley

Bonney Hartley is an enrolled member of Stockbridge-Munsee Community and a 2025 Forge Project Fellow. Her work has appeared inStonecoast Review, The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press), and Boundless (Amherst College Press), among others.

Anangokwe Wolf

Anangookwe Wolf is an Ojibwe, Assiniboine, and Dakota poet enrolled in Lac Courte Oreilles. They have performed at the Poetry Project and Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter in Lenapehoking and you may find their poems in Yellow Medicine Review.

Rob Arnold

Rob Arnold is a CHamoru poet, essayist, and arts leader whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Hyphen, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, RED INK, Yes Poetry, The Ocean State Review, Peripheries, The Volta, and Solstice, among others, and has been anthologized in New CHamoru Literature and Na'huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have received support from the Somerville Arts Council, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Artist Trust. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is Executive Director of Poets House.

Dr. Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of work in several genres, most recently a sixth poetry collection, Ancient Light. Blaeser is enrolled at White Earth Nation and grew up on the reservation. Her narratives, photographs, and ecopoetics re-story tribal lives and embody Indigenous land knowledge. A Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, and MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts, Blaeser is a 2025 recipient of the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers award.

Jake Skeets

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and was appointed the 3rd Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

No'u Revilla

No'u Revilla is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Born and raised with the Līlīlehua rain of Maui, she prioritizes aloha, gratitude, and collaboration in her practice. Noʻu is the author of Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions 2022), winner of the National Poetry Series and Balcones Prize. Her writing also appears in Lit Hub, ANMLY, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Split This Rock, the Library of Congress, and elsewhere. She was a 2023 Poetry and the Senses Fellow at Berkeley Arts Research Center and an 8x8 Artist at Shangri La: Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in 2024. Alongside Franny Choi, Bao Phi, and Terisa Siagatonu, she co-edited We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books 2024). She also served as Poem-a-Day guest editor in May 2024. Noʻu believes that poetry and politics run in the same river. So, after teaching poetry at Puʻuhuluhulu University in 2019, where she stood with her lāhui to protect Maunakea, she co-edited a special issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal with Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada entitled “We are Maunakea: Aloha ʻĀina Narratives of Protest, Protection, and Place.” After the Maui wildfires in 2023, she composed an elegy for Lahaina with Brandy Nālani McDougall and Dana Naone Hall. Noʻu is a lifetime “slyly / reproductive” student of Haunani-Kay Trask and serves as an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa.

Heid E. Erdrich

Heid E. Erdrich curates art exhibits, teaches, researches, and collaborates with other artists. In 2024 she was the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate and in 2025 she served as the James Welch Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Montana Missoula. Erdrich is Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her most recent books are Boundless: Abundance in Native American Art and Literature (co-edited, Amherst Press, 2025) Verb Animate -Poems, Prose, and Prompts from Collaborative Acts (Trio House Press, 2024) and National Poetry Series winner Little Big Bully (Penguin 2020). Heid has been awarded a  Camille Gage Fellowship to support her project Poetry Service Announcement (POES.A.) which promotes poetry as public art.

IN-NA-PO

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets—is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.

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