KSJD's Austin Cope spoke with Durango-based poet and multimedia artist Esther Belin before one of her local appearances in Cortez on April 20th. Ms. Belin is the author of the 1999 book From the Belly of my Beauty, which won an American Book Award, and the newly-published Of Cartography. They discussed how the U.S. Goverment's decision to enroll her parents in a boarding school in California in the 1950s affected her life growing up in Los Angeles. Click below to listen.
Navajo Poet Esther Belin Shares Her Work, Reflects on Impacts of Her Family's Forced Relocation
Jennaye Derge
