“Ngillatun en la Costa / Ngillatun Lafken Meu / Ngillatun at the Coast”

Posted on November 3, 2025 • Words by Graciela Huinao • Art by Rosalba Breazeale

Collaborators’ Q&A: Poet Graciela Huinao: Cada persona o artista que lea el poema, tendrá su propia versión, dependerá de cómo anide en su corazón. Artist Rosalba Breazeale: The photograph is a cyanolumen on silver gelatin paper. After taking time to contemplate the poem, I gathered small rocks from the Atlantic ocean and madder roots from my dye garden.

Artist Rosalba Breazeale (they/them, b. 1989) is an artist, educator and studio director at 205 Ocean Ave studios based on the traditional lands of the Wabanaki Confederacy, so-called Portland, Maine. Poet Graciela Huinao. (Garra de tigre) Poeta y narradora mapuche-williche. (Nación mapuche). Miembro Correspondiente por Osorno en la Academia Chilena de la lengua. Editor Inés Hernández-Ávila (Niimiipuu/Nez Perce and Tejana), is a poet, scholar-activist, visual artist, and Professor Emerita, Native American Studies, UC Davis.

 

Tagged: Ecopoetry, Empowerment, Indigenous Language, LGBTIQ+ Artist, Ocean / Water, Photograph, Religion / Spirituality, Solace, Spanish (language), Translation

“Mi Palabra / Ti Jk’ope / My Word”

Posted on November 1, 2024 • Words by Mikel Ruiz • Art by Rosalba Breazeale

Note: This broadside is part of our annual translation special feature.  Our Translations Editor, Ines Hernandez-Avila, selected two poems—both by poets writing in a language indigenous to the Americas. We are grateful for her time and vision for this annual feature. Of her choices and these broadsides, she has this to say: I dream of Indigenous peoples reading each other’s work with colonial languages acting as tools, not barriers. Translation, for me, as they would …

Tagged: Digital Art, Gratitude, Indigenous Language, Myth / Legend, Photograph, Solace, Spanish (language), Translation