Poetry Submissions Sought from Native Americans in or from California

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS FOR ANTHOLOGY

Deadline: June 1, 2015

Red Indian Road West:
Native American Poetry from California

To be published by Scarlet Tanager Books:
http://www.ScarletTanager.com

Who should submit? Native American poets from California tribes as well as poets from tribes nationwide who were born or currently live in California. All poems submitted should relate directly or indirectly to Native American experience in California. Please send 3 to 5 poems, tribal affiliation, and a short bio (no longer than 150 words) to Lucille Lang Day: lucyday[AT]scarlettanager[DOT]com. Either a Word .doc attachment or pasted text is okay. Payment is one copy of anthology.

Editors:

Luke Warm Water (Oglala Lakota) has been published in Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008) and in many literary magazines and anthologies. He was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival. Luke’s poetry collection City Tree of Concrete and Hope received an Artists Embassy International literary/cultural award in 2013.

Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag) is the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including The Curvature of Blue, Infinities, and Wild One. Her chapbook Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems won the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Contest and will be published in 2015. Her full-length collection Becoming an Ancestor will appear in 2015 from Červená Barva Press.

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