Rivers in My Veins dog pick Ask the Brindled

Ask the Brindled

Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual

trauma and truth

Kamloopa explores the fearless love and passion of Indigenous women reconnecting with their homelands

as the poet struggles and fights against the social

Rivers in My Veins dog pick Ask the BrindledWith calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances