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"solar plethora" digital, by antoinette
"solar plethora" digital, by antoinette
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Saturday, April 16, 2005
antoinette nora claypoole
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"The Border Crossing of John Graham"(click here)
Fall 2007
Interview in Heyoka Magazine (click here)
antoinette's writing life: w/ John LeKay
Interview in Heyoka Magazine (click here)
antoinette's writing life: w/ John LeKay
spring 2007
Murder, Wrapped in a Blanket
piece about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and Robert Robideau
winter 2007
"Rock Garden Hearts"
John Trudell and Anna Mae Aquash
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spring 2006
Rivers in Her Eyes, historical fiction
about Big Mountain, Az.
(excerpts, click here)
Murder, Wrapped in a Blanket
piece about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and Robert Robideau
winter 2007
"Rock Garden Hearts"
John Trudell and Anna Mae Aquash
click here
spring 2006
Rivers in Her Eyes, historical fiction
about Big Mountain, Az.
(excerpts, click here)
other work by antoinette click here
click here list of past writings
antoinette nora claypoole
(click on italics & images)
BIO
I have been published in various anthologies throughout the North and South West of the U.S.--some quite esoteric, some renegade and a few "literary" feats. Recently receiving a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, my current passion-- the Watersong Project--takes flight as it is synchronistically fused with/in the "lost works" of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), socialist and journalist who witnessed the October Uprising of 1917 (the Russian/Bolshevik Revolution). Some of my past sojourns include freelance work about the American Indian Movement, John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud trial coverage for Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Los Angeles (2003-2005) and creating books as the founding editor of a literary press, Wild Embers, begun in Taos, N.M. 
Embers is an effort committed to printing/creating books which tell a story about how we can survive these times. All the while loving where we came from. So we can get to where we long to be. One of our first books, la Puerta, Taos the art of fetching sky includes artists/writers of N. New Mexico. And will FINALLY be in print this Spring (2007).
Embers is an effort committed to printing/creating books which tell a story about how we can survive these times. All the while loving where we came from. So we can get to where we long to be. One of our first books, la Puerta, Taos the art of fetching sky includes artists/writers of N. New Mexico. And will FINALLY be in print this Spring (2007).
My first published book was a treatise for American Indian Movement leader, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash-- found murdered in 1976. Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae (1999, dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, N.M.) is now nearly out of print but remains a classic within underground circles worldwide. As an activist for Indigenous people, in the 1970's and 80's I learned that knowledge and art were the two most essential components for change--AND survival of not only indigenous cultures, but all of us humans.
Recent new book is Rivers in Her Eyes, (excerpts, click here) an historical fiction based on the Dine (Navajo) of Big Mountain, Az., creating a fervor which found some people burning the book, indeed! The MFA I received from Antioch University Los Angeles will always save my life, writing poetry replenishes my soul, and Indian Country once retrieved my spirit. Now I create writing places for all of us to dream.
"Nightsong" photo (above) by Gail Russell as seen in la Puerta, Taos
TOP photos by Jaap Vanderplas and antoinette nora claypoole
from la puerta, taos
TOP photos by Jaap Vanderplas and antoinette nora claypoole
from la puerta, taos
the butterfly effect bio
as an author, mother, activist and photographer
i feel that if you love mosquitoes they won't bite.
as a sister daughter auntie lover i know
dreams are where we really live.
as a human being human
i live by the magadalene reality
that all people are one.
workshops
as an author, mother, activist and photographer
i feel that if you love mosquitoes they won't bite.
as a sister daughter auntie lover i know
dreams are where we really live.
as a human being human i live by the magadalene reality
that all people are one.
workshops
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