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Cedar Sigo

Cedar Sigo
Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) and most recently the Bagley Wright Lecture Series book Guard the Mysteries (Wave Books, 2021). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College, Naropa University and University Press Books. He is currently a mentor in the low residency MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.


On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

Cedar Sigo on Texts That Focus on the Poet, Rather Than the Poetry
July 22, 2021  By Cedar Sigo
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How the Poets Wrote
of Billie Holiday

Cedar Sigo on the Voice of a Lifetime, and the Writing it Inspired
June 3, 2021  By Cedar Sigo
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