Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: A Diné Writers’ Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. His debut poetry collection is Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers.
Upcoming Events
November 2019
Look Closer: Poetry and Myth Remaking
The characters in these three poetry collections confront different kinds of displacement: from the body, from home, from time. In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through…
Find out more »Frontiers: Reconsidering the American West
New perspectives on the stories and characters that have shaped and are still definiing the American West. Jake Skeets’s debut poetry collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is an unflinching portrait of the actual West, and a fierce…
Find out more »Pop-up: The Rumpus presents Kristen Arnett, Jake Skeets, & Malcolm Tariq
Portland Book Festival presenting authors Kristen Arnett, Jake Skeets, and Malcolm Tariq join forces for a pop-up reading in the Portland Art Museum Galleries. This pop-up is presented in collaboration with The Rumpus. The group is paired with Medium by…
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PDX JAZZ: The Music and the Movement
October 23, 2019
The Music and the Movement will dive in to the inherent relationship…
2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: George Packer (Sold Out)
October 24, 2019
The series will begin on October 24 with author and staff writer…
One Page Wednesday: November
November 6, 2019
Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh…
2019 Portland Book Festival
November 9, 2019
Join Literary Arts for the annual Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of…
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
December 10, 2019
The Moth returns to Portland this December! This extraordinary performance will sell…
Everybody Reads 2020: Tommy Orange
March 5, 2020
Literary Arts is proud to host an evening with award-winning author Tommy…