Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry Mugs Don’t Tell Me to Wait

Don’t Tell Me to Wait captures a critical moment in American history and demonstrates the power of activism to change the course of a presidency-and a nation

Benjamin Franklin

Merci becomes the target of Edna’s jealousy

Written by food historian Paul Freedman

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry Mugs Don’t Tell Me to WaitJoy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U. S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear,