Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Photo: Shane Brown

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.

Look at This Blue by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

September 2022
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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...
Viscera

June 29, 2020 | Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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...
Streaming

May 2017
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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....
Streaming by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

September 2015
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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...
The Change

November 2013
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

for the sharecropper I left behind in ’79 Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns andfifth gear diesel tractors, we rode ro...