Take This Waltz

Poetry is spoken dance.

My new ultra fav poet (after Sherman Alexie -- duh!) is Orlando White.
Check out the website -- whoever did his front page, his doorway to the rest of the site, is a total design god/goddess.

You can read some of his work here at From the Fishouse.

Circle Shape,  a favorite of mine, is from Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009).

Another one Ars Poetica first appeared in To Topos Poetry International, Fall 2006.

from Orlando White's website:

Orlando White is the author of Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009). Originally from Tólikan, Arizona, he is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e.  He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University.

His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Omnidawn Poetry Feature Blog, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, American Indian Culture And Research Journal, Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologized in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas and translated into Spanish in In That Round Nation of Blood: An Anthology of Contemporary Indigenous Poetry.

He is a recipient of a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Residency. He has taught at The Art Center Design College, Brown University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Currently, he teaches at Diné College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona.