WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2019 Mona Arshi ’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns to

’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns to the transformative nature of life’s experiences

The Poetry Translation Centre translates

providing moments of clarity and insight during “the long night’s journey into day”

Walter records the things he sees around him with only a pencil and some paper

his absurd alter ego

WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier <br><b>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2019</b> Mona Arshi ’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns toWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her