Linda Hogan

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Linda Hogan (Chickasaw Nation) is known as an activist writer, award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist. She is the author of numerous books on topics of ethical, political, and spiritual concern for Native peoples: Dark. Sweet., Solar Storms, Mean Spirit, Power, People of the Whale, Dwellings, Woman Who Watches Over the World, numerous books of poems, and edited anthologies. A History of Kindness and The Radiant Lives of Animals are forthcoming in 2020.

  • A photograph of an ivory-billed woodpecker

    Two Activist Poems

    November 7, 2019 Linda Hogan
    Photo by James St. John / Flickr Fences I will never think of this in the same way, watching the woman in her daily brown skirt throw her own body against the fence and try to cli…
  • A close-up detail of sunlight on a body of water

    Four Poems

    July 18, 2018 Linda Hogan
    Photo by Michał Mancewicz / Unsplash Bathing with Tender Care And not this time the body of my child,but my own skin, loving the wrinkled kneesand the scars dealt t…
  • Dark. Sweet.

    Dark, Sweet: New and Selected Poems by Linda Hogan

    Linda Hogan
    Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2014. ISBN 9781566893510 From the beginning of her career, Linda Hogan’s often prayer-like poems evoke liminality, speaking from blurred boundaries of animal and human…