Cedar Sigo
Cedar Sigo is a poet and member of the Suquamish Nation. His most recent books are Saint of the Abyss from Spiral Editions and Occasional Objects, a book of collaborations written with Simon Wolf from Found Poem Press. He lives in Lofall, Washington.
My most intense writing experience would have to be the composition of the poem “Ode” in 2010. During the writing I followed along a list of names from the front pages of my book Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010). These were all the friends (mostly artists) that I felt I needed to thank. The list seemed to function as a guard rail.
Cedar Sigo, the Bagley-Wright lecturer for 2019, has just completed work with Joy Harjo and several other poets on a new Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and his recent 2019 poetry has appeared in Harper’s, Freak Fam, and Splinter. He currently lives in Lofall, Washington.
CEDAR SIGO was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, on Joanne Kyger, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005).
Cedar Sigo is the author of seven books and pamphlets of poetry, including two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008) and most recently, Stranger In Town (City Lights, 2010). He lives in San Francisco.
