Tanaya Winder, (Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute).
Tanaya Winder is a poet, writer, artist and educator who was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, CO. An enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, her background includes Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black heritages. Tanaya writes and teaches about different expressions of love (self love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love).
A winner of the 2010 A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando prize in poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cutthroat magazine, Adobe Walls, Superstition Review, Drunkenboat and Kweli among others. Her poems from her manuscript “Love in a Time of Blood Quantum” were produced and performed by the Poetic Theater Productions Presents Company in NYC. Her debut poetry collection Words Like Love was published in September 2015 by West End Press.
Tanaya has taught writing courses at Stanford University, UC-Boulder, and the University of New Mexico. She has a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA in creative writing from UNM. She is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of As/Us: A Space for Women of the World. She guest lectures and teaches creative writing workshops at high schools and universities internationally. She was a TEDxABQ speaker in 2013.
Tanaya is the Director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Upward Bound Program, which services 103 Native American youth from 8 states, 22 high schools, and 8 reservations across the country. She continues to teach as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico.
Finally, she created Dream Warriors Management, which currently consists of Indigenous Artists: Mic Jordan, Tall Paul, the Sampson Brothers, and Frank Waln. Tanaya manages these artists, each of whom travels to perform concerts, run workshops, teach empowerment and artistic skill sets, and speak at various engagements throughout the country. She created it to bring together different talented artists, speakers, and educators who embody the values of what it means to be a Dream Warrior.*
*www.tamayawinder.com
consider the assemblage of a longing
rendered in stone so distinct it should be studied not quite
unlike Orpheus
and Eurydice who tried to return to the land of the living—
El Parque del Amor
and El Beso should be a part of this body of myths
like Rodin's Kiss,
the book in Paolo's hand, a near-miss of lips, the mouth
opens a cyclone, breaths
barely separated as the space between pages. But,
there are no gods,
no monsters, or heroes—just two unnamed bodies in history.
And maybe
in the land of the living it is certain one lover will always try to look back,
to call the other—
the way the sun continually begs the moon to rearrange
constellations
into monuments assembled in longing.*
* https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue7/poetry/tanayawinder
AHAU
Kin 220: Yellow Crystal Sun
I dedicate in order to enlighten
Universalizing life
I seal the matrix of universal fire
With the crystal tone of cooperation
I am guided by the power of free will.
What we call memory is merely a set of conditioned images stored in the unconscious and available for recall.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2016-2017.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
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