Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in welcoming local author Kara Briggs for another installment in the Nature of Writing series to share her debut novel, Rivers in My Veins. With 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 of her tribes in poems that take the reader to the dance circle. She received the 2024 James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry for "Acknowledgement Two," a poem in this collection about her uncle who fought for fishing rights.
