The landscape of the Navajo Nation is undergoing dramatic changes. In 2018, 191 wild horses were discovered dead in a stock pond near Gray Mountain. The horses were trapped thigh- and neck-deep in mud, some piled on top of others. Horses is a twelve-part poem responding to the climate crisis faced by this region and beyond. 'This is the story we tell when seasons change / but what are told of time: time is an ulcer / a lie we tell through mouths not our own / because this mouth belongs to ...

“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's BodyNavajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.“For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it.”With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets eme...

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of a 2020 Whiting Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetrySelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men "only touch when they fuck in a...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor Rigoberto Gonzalez writes in his introduction, “Writing amplifies our questions and illumina...