Story Keepers Book Club with special guest: Crisosto Apache

Our goal is not just to read Indigenous authors, but to honor the storytelling traditions within each of us. We are the story keepers of our own lives, our tribes, and our backgrounds. We will be discussing is(ness), written by Crisosto Apache. The poetry collection is(ness) is all about capturing the importance of time and presence. Much like taking a snapshot of moments in stillness, similar to a photograph or painting. These poems reflect the meaningful existence and presence of my experiences over the years and in dreams, even though they can sometimes be complex to interpret without retribution or containment. The collection seeks to show what the poems represent in terms of “meaningfulness” and the essence of a greater existence. The poems are all about the moments and the quality of presence within those moments.

Crisosto Apache is from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache reservation. Crisosto is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo). Apache’s clanships are the Salt Clan, born for the Towering House Clan. Apache attended and earned an MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing. Crisosto is also an editor-at-large for . Apache’s books are GENESIS (Lost Alphabet, Out-of-Print) and Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publishing), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2023 Betty Berzon Emerging Writers Award and a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Authors League Award in poetry, with a new poetry collection is(ness), from Gnashing Teeth Publishing. Apache is a part-time multimedia artist and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Crisosto also continues to be an advocate for the Two-spirit/Indigiqueer community for the past twenty years, working in grassroots non-profit organizations both locally and nationally.

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