Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat; Dog Road Woman; Off-Season City Pipe; Blood Run; Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas; Effigies I & II; Rock, Ghost Willow, Deer; Burn; and Streaming. Awards include an American Book Award, a King-Chavez-Parks Award, an NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award, and a 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. She directs the Literary Sandhill CraneFest in Nebraska and is currently Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2022. 146 pages.
RECENTLY I FOUND myself way high up in the hills of Berkeley—at the outermost lip of Tilden Park, when the blue-gray dusk turned all...
Photo courtesy of the author
for Rachelle 4/27/2020
Our moms were widows before they met our fathers.
Their hair blue-black, their hands already chapped, caressed
by Inglis die-cast...
America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), Current (2005), acrylic on steel, 18 x 18 in, part of the Greater Vehicle series
The innovator isn’t important. It’s whoever has the watershed moment....
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House Press (Consortium, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781566893756
Beginning with her first collection, Dog Road Woman, Allison Hedge Coke announced herself as a poet...