Molly S. McGlennen, Professor of English, Co-Edits New Book Indigenous Poetics
Molly McGlennen, Professor of English, co-edited the newly published Indigenous Poetics (Michigan State University Press, 2025) with her mentor of 25 years, Inés Hernández-Ávila (Nez Perce/Tejana), professor emerita of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). Indigenous Poetics is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets that highlight the role of poetry in the flourishing field of Native American and Indigenous Studies.
The collection explores how poetry helps “understand, contemplate, and realize something deeper about ourselves, our communities, and our worlds.” Contributing poets, such as Layli Long Soldier, Jake Skeets, and Craig Santos Perez “tell us—in their own words and on their own Indigenous terms—how they engage poetic expression as one would a tool, a teacher, a guide, a map, or a friend.”