WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2019 Mona Arshi “Nichola Deane’s rich and sensuous

“Nichola Deane’s rich and sensuous poems may open with a plainspoken line or a recognisable surface

The Poetry Translation Centre translates

Aristotle daydreams in a Chevy Suburban

by the lightest of means

Walter records the things he sees around him with only a pencil and some paper

WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier <br><b>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2019</b> Mona Arshi “Nichola Deane’s rich and sensuousWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her