Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Horses, which was named one of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. His honors include a Whiting Award, Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, NEA Grant for Arts Projects, and he was the 2023–2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is currently serving as the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
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Books by Jake Skeets
Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Awards
“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother’s Body
“For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it.”
This National Poetry Series winner is an unflinching portrait of the actual west—full of beauty as well as brutality, where boys tentatively learn to become, and to love, men.
Foreword by Jake Skeets
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. Steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant.
