antoinette nora claypoole

new book...release date January 2012...

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Ghost Rider Roads

collected/by antoinette nora claypoole

a new book of collected works about the American Indian Movement, 1970-present, includes:

essays about Anna Mae Aquash/murder trials from antoinette's Indian Country blog
previously unpublished work by Robert Robideau (rip)
and information on Leonard Peltier's current campaign for Executive Clemency....

connect here if you would like a FREE review copy

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ongoing, new Project about Louise Bryant....ww w.louisebryantbook.blogspot.com

nEw wOrk!

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self portrait autumn equinox, 2010, Ashfield, Mass.

BIO

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Jan. 2011

"Decades of Deceit: a Life Sentence for John Graham"
by antoinette nora claypoole
published at Infoshop News, regarding old AIM murder trials

"Sassing Back" by antoinette nora claypoole
a Review of Sharon Doubiago's "My Father's Love"
published in New England's Wilderness Literary Review
click here, scroll down to "reviews"...yum

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BIO


"lithia creek self portrait" ashland, oregon 2010

antoinette claypoole is a published author, poet from Ashland, Oregon. And Taos, New Mexico. Her first book Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae is an underground classic about the American Indian Movement and was recently acquired by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. in their Library collection. A recipient of a Literary Non-Fiction fellowship Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she is currently completing a trilogy of poetic exposes and previously unpublished work by/about the life and lost works of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), for which antoinette received the Oregon Award. Ghost Rider Roads, her project about the American Indian Movement from 1970-present, will be released in January 2012. It includes writings by Robert Robideau (RIP), Anishanabe
and essays written by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
about his history and current efforts demanding Executive Clemency.

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Indian Country Blog for Anna Mae Aquash

by antoinette nora claypoole
new piece Dec 2010
John Graham faces Life Sentence

"Justice Hangs a Vacancy Sign: Guilty Verdict in Aquash Murder"

good NEWS...!!
Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae was recently acquired by the Smithsonian Institute Library, Washington, D.C. for excerpts...click book cover image

nEw WoRk ... Spring 2010

"Sassing Back: rewriting the politics of Incest"
review of Sharon Doubiagos new book (3.10)

A opchine Wala Ohkon
Dreaming of a True World

by Ed Little Crow

intro/photos by antoinette nora claypoole

la puerta, Taos, the art of fetching Sky

two volumes of art, poetry, love
from Taos, N.M.
(2009)
Puerta,Taos the art of fetching Sky two volumes!

recent work : Spring/Winter 2009
(keep scrolling down for older work)

"A Blue Desert Trail Home" (2.09) Tribute to Robert Robideau (1947-2009) Anishanabe/Ojibway (2.09)
Bloody Mr. X (9.09) Peltier denied Parole, again

InfoShop News Pieces (2007-present)

(archives here)

hEyOkA magazine, ed. John LeKay (2007-present)

Salt River Review, ed. James Cervantes

Rock Garden Hearts: for Annie Mae
Jukebox at Taos Junction

works/projects in progress

earlier writings (1998-2004)
by antoinette

Man of Occasional Two Braids (2001)
excerpts ...Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: t he legend of annie mae
excerpts from R ivers in Her Eyes
new... AUDIO KPFK Pacifica Radio Broadcasts
NEWS clips from Arlo Looking Cloud Trial
interview with Vernon Bellecourt
John Graham Extradition Hearings
"Trail to Blue Lake" Poets Against the War
order book about Anna Mae Aquash

bio info
other stuff
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various CURRENT work

by antoinette nora claypoole

artwork credits
"yucaipa spring: calif." self portrait
"magadelana, nm" photo/art by antoinette pentax
"Sitting Bull" acrylic by Robert Robideau
Louise Bryant circa 1918, photographer unknown
"self portrait, 2008 desert relapse" digital

photo
"solar plethora" digital, self portrait by antoinette

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"solar plethora" digital, by antoinette

antoinette nora claypoole

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photos by Jaap Vanderplas/antoinette watersongs@gmail.com

other work by antoinette click here

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BIO

I have been published in various anthologies throughout the North and South West of the U.S.--some quite esoteric, some renegade and a few "literary" feats. Recently receiving a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, my current passion-- the Watersong Project--takes flight as it is synchronistically fused with/in the "lost works" of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), socialist and journalist who witnessed the October Uprising of 1917 (the Russian/Bolshevik Revolution). Some of my past sojourns include freelance work about the American Indian Movement, John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud trial coverage for Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Los Angeles (2003-2005) and creating books as the founding editor of a literary press, Wild Embers, begun in Taos, N.M.

Embers is an effort committed to printing/creating books which tell a story about how we can survive these times. All the while loving where we came from. So we can get to where we long to be. One of our first books, la Puerta, Tao s the art of fetching sky includes artists/writers of N. New Mexico. And will FINALLY be in print this Spring (2007).

My first published book was a treatise for American Indian Movement leader, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash-- found murdered in 1976. Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae (1999, dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, N.M.) is now nearly out of print but remains a classic within underground circles worldwide. As an activist for Indigenous people, in the 1970's and 80's I learned that knowledge and art were the two most essential components for change--AND survival of not only indigenous cultures, but all of us humans.

Recent new book is Rivers in Her Eyes, (excerpts, click here) an historical fiction based on the Dine (Navajo) of Big Mountain, Az., creating a fervor which found some people burning the book, indeed! The MFA I received from Antioch University Los Angeles will always save my life, writing poetry replenishes my soul, and Indian Country once retrieved my spirit. Now I create writing places for all of us to dream.

"Nightsong" photo (above) by Gail Russell as seen in la Puerta, Taos
TOP photos by Jaap Vanderplas and antoinette nora claypoole
from la puerta, taos

the butterfly effect bio
as an author, mother, activist and photographer
i feel that if you love mosquitoes they won't bite.
as a sister daughter auntie lover i know
dreams are where we really live.

as a human being human
i live by the magadalene reality
that all people are one.

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antoinette nora claypoole
All People are One

2007 writings index

"The Border Crossing of John Graham"(click here)

Winter 2007
Heyoka Magazine

Fall 2007
Interview in Heyoka Magazine (click here)
antoinette's writing life: w/ John LeKay

spring 2007
Murder, Wrapped in a Blanket
piece about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and Robert Robideau

winter 2007
"Rock Garden Hearts"
John Trudell and Anna Mae Aquash
click here

spring 2006
Rivers in Her Eyes, historical fiction
about Big Mountain, Az.
(excerpts, click here)