Shannon Gibney

and is never afraid to stand up to bigger beings

play and dance through its pages

leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water

Rivers in My Veins stories Shannon GibneyWith 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