This is Where history but there came a day

but there came a day when the train took away with it something much more important

Lucia Bonacci

who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change

opportunistic Trickster soon discovers that he too has lost his people

watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse

This is Where history but there came a dayPoetry collection by Louise Waakaa'igan, recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first place poem, "There is Where." In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K. Waakaa'igan lets us hear the "winds of flutes" even as she writes from "concrete plains" of prison. In the tradition of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Marilyn Buck, this poet lets word fly through and beyond prison walls. A multilayered origin story, This