Cedar Sigo (born February 2, 1978 in
Washington
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State) is a
Suquamish
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American writer of art, literature and film.
Background
Cedar Sigo was raised in
Suquamish
The Suquamish () are a Lushootseed language, Lushootseed-speaking Native Americans in the United States, Native American people, located in present-day Washington (state), Washington in the United States. They are a southern Coast Salish peopl ...
located within the
Port Madison Indian Reservation
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Location
The reserv ...
in
Washington state
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. 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
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
,
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.
Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activ ...
,
Lisa Jarnot,
Alice Notley
Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific mo ...
, and
Joanne Kyger
Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet. The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New ...
.
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
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, 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). 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.
Currently, he still lives in Washington State.
Works
*''Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003)
*''Selected Writings (Expanded Second Edition)'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005)
*''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
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, 2010)
*"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).
References
External links
Book Review of ''Stranger in Town''Cedar Sigo reads for SPD's New Lit Generation at LitCrawlCedar Sigo - ''The Emerald Tablet''
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Living people
1978 births
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century Native Americans
American male poets
LGBT Native Americans
American LGBT poets
Native American poets
Suquamish people
20th-century Native Americans
21st-century LGBT people