Indigenous Nations Poets announces Jake Skeets as Keynote Speaker

Join us in celebrating the opening night of our 2025 Fellowship Retreat, featuring Keynote Speaker Jake Skeets.

This event is part of the 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets mentoring retreat. This year’s retreat theme, Spirit Lines and Visual Poetics, considers the many ways Indigenous poetics allude to and embody spiritual knowledge and traditions, and the visual experimentations poets employ to break the bounds of text.

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.  He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

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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