Abalone Mountain Press Podcast is a podcast that focuses on Indigenous writers and their writing journeys. We discuss poetry, experiences and words about being a Native Writer. Abalone Mountain Press Podcast strives to create space for our stories.
‘On discussing Desert Teeth and Diné Storytelling w/ Boderra Joe’
In this episode of Abalone Mountain Press, I speak with Boderra Joe about their newly released book of poems titled, Desert Teeth. Desert Teeth is a collection of poetry that unfolds the wakening shift of scarred violence affecting native people and land for centuries, where alcohol and uranium, two of many elements, continue to take the lives of our relatives. Each poem lingers and holds the face of the reader through deep explorations of grief, family, identity, and love. These poems walk o...
8 Aug 2022
S2 E1: Taté and Ohíya Walker "Disrupting the Poetry World"
In this episode of Abalone Mountain Press Podcast, we interview Taté and Ohíya Walker of The Trickster Riots. The Trickster Riots is the first full length poetry collection by Abalone Mountain Press. We talk about the first time we learned about tricksters, what the trickster symbolizes and advice for Native youth wanting to learn more about poetry.
7 Jul 2021
E6: Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak "On growing up O'odham"
In this episode we discuss use of names through colonization, connecting back to tribal (Tohono O'odham ) roots, addiction, native masculinity and growing up on the reservation in Southern Arizona. TW:Drug use, Childhood abuse & assault
4 Jun 2021
E5: Discussing the Diné reader
In this special episode of Abalone Mountain Press Podcast, we discuss The Diné Reader. In this episode we interview one of the editors, Esther Belin about their editing process. We also interviewed Byron Aspaas, Nia Francisco and Laura Tohe. We discuss what it is like growing up on the Navajo Reservation, writing poems in Navajo and hopes for the Diné Reader.
22 Apr 2021
E4: FIIK//BOOKS "On finding your book community"
In this episode of Abalone Mountain Press Podcast, I am speaking with Ryan Greene, Mary Hope and Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta about finding your book community, translating, Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective and their new project F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS. According to Entropy magazine "F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS IS a phoenix-based, phoenix-focused publishing project that creates collaboratively-designed, hand-made, limited-run books by undersung local authors/artists." For more info on FIIK//BOOK...
24 Mar 2021
E3: Tanaya Winder "On grief work and publishing."
In this episode I talk with Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black tribes). We discuss her books, Love like words and Why Storms Are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless. We discuss grief work, growing up the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado and her journey in publishing in and self publishing. Content warning, we also discuss a bit about Missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives.
22 Feb 2021
E2: Danielle Geller "Writing through familial trauma"
In this episode, I speak with Danielle Geller about her new memoir, Dog Flowers. "In Danielle Geller’s debut memoir, Dog Flowers, a daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family’s history and retrace her mother’s life—using both narrative and archive in this arrestingly original memoir" (daniellegeller.com)
21 Jan 2021
E1: Manny Loley "On healing through stories"
In this episode, I am speaking with Manny Loley, Diné writer. Our interview includes the writing process of the Diné writer and his experiences with identity, storytelling and healing as a native person. Manny Loley is ‘Áshįįhi born for Tó Baazhní’ázhí; his maternal grandparents are Tódích’íi’nii and his paternal grandparents are Kinyaa’áanii. He is a current Ph.D. candidate in English and literary arts at the University of Denver. Loley is director of the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute. H...
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