{"id":71,"date":"2012-05-17T18:23:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/?p=71"},"modified":"2012-05-17T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:25:10","slug":"navajo-poet-visits-swinomish-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/2012\/05\/17\/navajo-poet-visits-swinomish-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo poet visits Swinomish site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/sherwin12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/sherwin12-e1337278543279-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/sherwin12-e1337278543279-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/sherwin12-e1337278543279.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>This week we were visited by Sherwin Bitsui for an afternoon discussion and reading.\u00a0 You can find\u00a0more information and his website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsui.com\/\"> here<\/a>. He is a nationally famous poet that is in La Conner for the biennial <a href=\"www.skagitriverpoetry.org\">Skagit River Poetry Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 In a roundtable format, he read us some of his work and we did poetry writing exercises with him exploring sound and our stories.\u00a0 We had great discussions about language, culture and the connections between poetry, place and identity.\u00a0 We are grateful that he was able to join us and we recommend his two books of poetry, <em>Shapeshift <\/em>and <em>Flood Song<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/shapeshift_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/shapeshift_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/flood_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/files\/2012\/05\/flood_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week we do not have class on Thursday since there is a Blessing of the Fleet ceremony. We have\u00a0sun for this event and it is a beautiful blue sky day! You can\u00a0learn more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/nwifc.org\/2010\/06\/video-swinomish-tribes-blessing-of-the-fleet\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we were visited by Sherwin Bitsui for an afternoon discussion and reading.\u00a0 You can find\u00a0more information and his website here. He is a nationally famous poet that is in La Conner for the biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/2012\/05\/17\/navajo-poet-visits-swinomish-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/swinomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}