Cedar Sigo
Cedar Sigo | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 2, 1978 |
| Education | Naropa Institute |
Cedar Sigo (born February 2, 1978, in Washington State) is a Suquamish American writer of art, literature and film.
Background
[edit | edit source]Cedar Sigo was raised in Suquamish located within the Port Madison Indian Reservation in Washington state. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder Colorado. It was there that he studied and interacted with well-known poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.[1]
Sigo is the author of several books and pamphlets of poetry, some of which have been included in various magazines and anthologies. Sigo has given poetry readings in various locations across the United States, including the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Suquamish Community House, also called sgwәdzadad qәł ?altxw (The House of Awakened Culture).[2] His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, Shampoo, RealPoetik, Puppy Flowers, Suspect Thoughts, 6x6, and New York Nights, among other journals.[3] Currently, he still lives in Washington State.
Works
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- Selected Writings (Expanded Second Edition) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Death Race V.S.O.P. (with Micah Ballard & Will Yackulic) (Red Ant, 2005)
- Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008)
- Stranger in Town (City Lights Publishers, 2010) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- "Language Arts" (Wave Books, 2014)
- "Royals" (Wave Books, 2017)
- There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera (ed. Cedar Sigo for Joanne Kyger) (Seattle: Wave Books, 2017). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Book Review of Stranger in Town
- Cedar Sigo reads for SPD's New Lit Generation at LitCrawl
- Cedar Sigo in EOAGH, a Journal of the Arts
- Cedar Sigo - The Emerald Tablet
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- Living people
- 1978 births
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American poets
- American male poets
- Native American LGBTQ people
- American LGBTQ poets
- Native American poets
- Suquamish people
- 20th-century Native American people
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Native American writers
- LGBTQ people from Washington (state)
- Native American people from Washington (state)