Poems from Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings

Diane Wilson

the inevitability of one outcome

and its devastating impact on Indigenous people

It brings families together for meals and new memories

Junk justice Poems from Pulitzer finalist LindaJunk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing