Crisosto Apache
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My poem “Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits” from my new book “is(ness) has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks! This means that a poem from each of my books released has been nominated for this award. Now it’s a cross-my-fingers moment until they announce. Maybe 3rd time's a charm?
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My poem “Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits” from my new book “is(ness) has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks! This means that a poem from each of my books released has been nominated for this award. Now it’s a cross-my-fingers moment until they announce. Maybe 3rd time's a charm?
Did an interview for my new book "is(ness)" for KDNK Radio: Regional Roundup | Episode 130 (last segment of the show). The conversation discusses the title concept of my book and some conceptual ideas for the book. I read "Diminishing Space Between the Mouth". www.kdnk.org/podcast/regi...
Regional Roundup | Episode 130
This week's Regional Roundup is a special in honor of Native American Heritage Month. We'll hear about the unique sister-city relationship between Longmont, Colorado, and the Northern Arapaho of the W...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Did an interview for my new book "is(ness)" for KDNK Radio: Regional Roundup | Episode 130 (last segment of the show). The conversation discusses the title concept of my book and some conceptual ideas for the book. I read "Diminishing Space Between the Mouth". www.kdnk.org/podcast/regi...
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache. I had an exciting conversation with Itto Outini and Mekiya Outini on their podcast, The Datekeepers (the fruit), about my poetry. Take a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast
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November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache. I had an exciting conversation with Itto Outini and Mekiya Outini on their podcast, The Datekeepers (the fruit), about my poetry. Take a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
My new poetry collection "is(ness)" was just released in September. Copies are still to be had. Grab your copy or share this post. More media to come. Thanks for your support. If you are teaching my new book, I will do a Zoom visit to your class if invited. gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
is(ness) - Gnashing Teeth Publishing
The poetry collection "is(ness)" is all about capturing the importance of time and presence. Much like taking a snapshot of moments in stillness, similar to a photograph or painting. These poems refle...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My new poetry collection "is(ness)" was just released in September. Copies are still to be had. Grab your copy or share this post. More media to come. Thanks for your support. If you are teaching my new book, I will do a Zoom visit to your class if invited. gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
Happening tonight (11-7-2025), still time to register for this free event. I am reading from my new poetry collection "is(ness)" & having a conversation with Distiny Leftwich at the Denver Public Library from 6 to 8 pm. Drop what you are doing & come listen. denverlibrary.libcal.com/event/14240369
Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Author Circle with Crisosto Apache
Join us for an intimate evening in the round as poet, educator, and activist Crisosto Apache (Mescalero Apache / Diné) shares from is(ness), a ...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Happening tonight (11-7-2025), still time to register for this free event. I am reading from my new poetry collection "is(ness)" & having a conversation with Distiny Leftwich at the Denver Public Library from 6 to 8 pm. Drop what you are doing & come listen. denverlibrary.libcal.com/event/14240369
Writing sacrifice - Allen Ginsberg taught me while attending the Naropa Summer Writing Program back in the early 90s' to "Do not be afraid to kill your darlings." I have sense turned that phrase into "Do not be afraid to rehire those darlings", and repurpose lines or words I have rejected.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Writing sacrifice - Allen Ginsberg taught me while attending the Naropa Summer Writing Program back in the early 90s' to "Do not be afraid to kill your darlings." I have sense turned that phrase into "Do not be afraid to rehire those darlings", and repurpose lines or words I have rejected.
Here is a podcast I did about a month ago with The Date Keepers (as in the fruit), which has finally been released. In this episode, I discuss language in poetics.
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here is a podcast I did about a month ago with The Date Keepers (as in the fruit), which has finally been released. In this episode, I discuss language in poetics.
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
"[...] it’s certainly fair to say that the dreams of some are more interesting than the dreams of others, and the dreams of artists (in this case writers, because hey, look around) fall into that former camp." lithub.com/no-one-cares...
No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You’re a Famous Writer
It’s true: no one likes to listen to other people describe their dreams. It’s unfair, of course, because pretty much everyone loves to describe their dreams—even if they’re too po…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"[...] it’s certainly fair to say that the dreams of some are more interesting than the dreams of others, and the dreams of artists (in this case writers, because hey, look around) fall into that former camp." lithub.com/no-one-cares...
My recently published book "is(ness)", Gnashing Teeth Publishing, is listed as one of the CLMP's reading lists for November. Check out all the other Indigenous authors. There are some great titles.
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A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend r...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My recently published book "is(ness)", Gnashing Teeth Publishing, is listed as one of the CLMP's reading lists for November. Check out all the other Indigenous authors. There are some great titles.
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Poet & Book Seller, Lawrence Ferlingghetti.
"An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon."
Dean Rader, September 14, 2025.
hyperallergic.com/1040981/pain...
"An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon."
Dean Rader, September 14, 2025.
hyperallergic.com/1040981/pain...
Painting Was His First Love, But Poetry Got in the Way
An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Poet & Book Seller, Lawrence Ferlingghetti.
"An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon."
Dean Rader, September 14, 2025.
hyperallergic.com/1040981/pain...
"An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon."
Dean Rader, September 14, 2025.
hyperallergic.com/1040981/pain...
COMING UP SOON!
Central Library - 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy Denver, CO
Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Registration-FREE: Link in bio–Linktree
#DenverPublicLibrary #FallReads #DenverEvents #AuthorTalks #LiteraryDenver
Central Library - 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy Denver, CO
Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Registration-FREE: Link in bio–Linktree
#DenverPublicLibrary #FallReads #DenverEvents #AuthorTalks #LiteraryDenver
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
COMING UP SOON!
Central Library - 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy Denver, CO
Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Registration-FREE: Link in bio–Linktree
#DenverPublicLibrary #FallReads #DenverEvents #AuthorTalks #LiteraryDenver
Central Library - 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy Denver, CO
Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Registration-FREE: Link in bio–Linktree
#DenverPublicLibrary #FallReads #DenverEvents #AuthorTalks #LiteraryDenver
After seven years, it's time to say goodbye to GENESIS. But hopefully not forever. I've got to look into a second printing with a different publisher and get this collection in its original concept. I'm open to legitimate serious suggestions.
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
After seven years, it's time to say goodbye to GENESIS. But hopefully not forever. I've got to look into a second printing with a different publisher and get this collection in its original concept. I'm open to legitimate serious suggestions.
Sign up for my poetry class.
Lighthouse-Workshop, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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Poetry Fest: "Capturing the Subconscious—Lucid Imagery of Dreams as Truth in Poetry"
"Dreams are a mysterious concept [...]..."
Lighthouse-Workshop, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/poe...
Poetry Fest: "Capturing the Subconscious—Lucid Imagery of Dreams as Truth in Poetry"
"Dreams are a mysterious concept [...]..."
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sign up for my poetry class.
Lighthouse-Workshop, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/poe...
Poetry Fest: "Capturing the Subconscious—Lucid Imagery of Dreams as Truth in Poetry"
"Dreams are a mysterious concept [...]..."
Lighthouse-Workshop, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/poe...
Poetry Fest: "Capturing the Subconscious—Lucid Imagery of Dreams as Truth in Poetry"
"Dreams are a mysterious concept [...]..."
I AM GOING TO BE THERE. ARE YOU?
www.eastwindow.org/events/journ...
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts RELEASE PARTY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
East Window
4550 Broadway
Ste C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
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Thursday, October 9th, 2025
East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts RELEASE PARTY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
East Window
4550 Broadway
Ste C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I AM GOING TO BE THERE. ARE YOU?
www.eastwindow.org/events/journ...
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts RELEASE PARTY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
East Window
4550 Broadway
Ste C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
www.eastwindow.org/events/journ...
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts RELEASE PARTY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
East Window
4550 Broadway
Ste C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
Here is a recently published heartfelt poem by my friend David Mason (former Colorado Poet Laureate), who wrote a blurb for my book "is(ness)".
"Well-made and wearing out,
they were a pair of characters
framed at the end of the road."
rattle.com/old-shoes-by...
"Well-made and wearing out,
they were a pair of characters
framed at the end of the road."
rattle.com/old-shoes-by...
Old Shoes by David Mason - Rattle: Poetry
News comes of more killing in America,
the usual recriminations
filling the fountains of blame.
rattle.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here is a recently published heartfelt poem by my friend David Mason (former Colorado Poet Laureate), who wrote a blurb for my book "is(ness)".
"Well-made and wearing out,
they were a pair of characters
framed at the end of the road."
rattle.com/old-shoes-by...
"Well-made and wearing out,
they were a pair of characters
framed at the end of the road."
rattle.com/old-shoes-by...
If you missed the reading or were unable to attend, the link to the recorded sessions is listed on my YouTube Channel by name. You can also listen to the Q&A that followed the reading. www.youtube.com/channel/UCgK...
September 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you missed the reading or were unable to attend, the link to the recorded sessions is listed on my YouTube Channel by name. You can also listen to the Q&A that followed the reading. www.youtube.com/channel/UCgK...
Reading Tonight! [LINK IN THE BIO]
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Rajiv Mohabir, “SEABEAST”
Crisosto Apache, “is(ness)”
Marcia B. Douglas, “The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive”
Shop at Matter Bookstore,
2114 Market St, Denver, CO 80205
Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 pm-8:30 pm.
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Rajiv Mohabir, “SEABEAST”
Crisosto Apache, “is(ness)”
Marcia B. Douglas, “The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive”
Shop at Matter Bookstore,
2114 Market St, Denver, CO 80205
Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 pm-8:30 pm.
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reading Tonight! [LINK IN THE BIO]
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-ea...
Rajiv Mohabir, “SEABEAST”
Crisosto Apache, “is(ness)”
Marcia B. Douglas, “The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive”
Shop at Matter Bookstore,
2114 Market St, Denver, CO 80205
Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 pm-8:30 pm.
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-ea...
Rajiv Mohabir, “SEABEAST”
Crisosto Apache, “is(ness)”
Marcia B. Douglas, “The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive”
Shop at Matter Bookstore,
2114 Market St, Denver, CO 80205
Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 pm-8:30 pm.
"Peering beyond the immediate situation, beyond this particular moment in life, she [Sylvia Plath] casts a darkly prognostic eye toward the rosary of moments stringing her uncertain future — a future that would soon include a passionate but damaging love,..." www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/18/s...
Sylvia Plath and the Loneliness of Love
“Life is loneliness… Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship — but the loneliness of the soul, in its appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering.”
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September 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Peering beyond the immediate situation, beyond this particular moment in life, she [Sylvia Plath] casts a darkly prognostic eye toward the rosary of moments stringing her uncertain future — a future that would soon include a passionate but damaging love,..." www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/18/s...
My 3rd poetry collection has dropped. If you preordered (thank you), they should be on their way. If not, you can order it here gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My 3rd poetry collection has dropped. If you preordered (thank you), they should be on their way. If not, you can order it here gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
Ever since my spouse passed away, I have not been posting much. I will soon get back to it. Patience, please.
September 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ever since my spouse passed away, I have not been posting much. I will soon get back to it. Patience, please.
Excited to announce that my new poetry collection "is(ness)" set for release September 2025. I encourage you to reserve your copy & preorder. This collection offers a unique experience, distinct from my previous works. Secure your copy by preordering today.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
August 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Excited to announce that my new poetry collection "is(ness)" set for release September 2025. I encourage you to reserve your copy & preorder. This collection offers a unique experience, distinct from my previous works. Secure your copy by preordering today.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
"[...] this capturing of the surface of emotional fact is useful for other people in that it jolts them into thinking, into doing their own act of understanding." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...
Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88
“I write to find out what I think about something.”
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July 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"[...] this capturing of the surface of emotional fact is useful for other people in that it jolts them into thinking, into doing their own act of understanding." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...
"Hesse offers a hierarchical taxonomy predicated on the same sentiment. He outlines three key types, which can similarly coexist within a single reader over the course of a lifetime, [...]".
www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/h...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/h...
Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
“At the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations tha…
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July 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Hesse offers a hierarchical taxonomy predicated on the same sentiment. He outlines three key types, which can similarly coexist within a single reader over the course of a lifetime, [...]".
www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/h...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/h...
"When we name things simply, with words preceding their meaning, a cosmic narration takes place. Does the discovery of origins remove the dust?" --Etel Adnan (1925-2021).
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Shifting the Silence to Find the Meaning: 95-Year-Old Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on How to Live and How to Die
“The universe makes a sound — is a sound. In the core of this sound there’s a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul… Silence is…
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July 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"When we name things simply, with words preceding their meaning, a cosmic narration takes place. Does the discovery of origins remove the dust?" --Etel Adnan (1925-2021).
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
"Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington"
youtu.be/ZlWwkaDNZQQ?...
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Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington
YouTube video by Raymond Foye
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July 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington"
youtu.be/ZlWwkaDNZQQ?...
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