Diane Glancy is an award-winning author, poet and filmmaker of Cherokee, English, and German descent. She is professor emeritus at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of thirty-eight books. Her latest collection of essays, The Dream of a Broken Field, was published in 2011 by the University of Nebraska Press.
Through her poetry Glancy seeks to acknowledge and preserve her mixed ethnic heritage. She creates an original vision of North America, pieced from real and invented historic documents, museum artifacts, and field notes. The poems displayed here appear in Glancy’s recent book Stories of the Driven World (2010), a collection of prose/poems and poems about the process of Native peoples being treated as artifacts.
More information about Diane Glancy and a complete list of works, can be found on her websites: www.dianeglancy.com and www.dianeglancy.org.
All poems courtesy of the author and published in Stories of the Driven World by Diane Glancy (Mammoth Publications, 2010).
They wouldn’t stay dead
Wigwamming
The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts
Comet
Horned Being
Spencer’s Elevator Dialogue Project
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