Join inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation Luci Tapahonso, Center Circl, and In-Na-Po for our 2025 keynote!

This event is part of the 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets mentoring retreat. This year’s retreat theme, Spirit Lines and Visual Poetics, considers the many ways Indigenous poetics allude to and embody spiritual knowledge and traditions, and the visual experimentations poets employ to break the bounds of text.

Luci Tapahonso Diné (Navajo) is professor emerita of English Literature (University of New Mexico 2016) and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation (2013-2015). She has published three children’s books and six award-winning books of poetry.

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets—is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.