“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