Jake Skeets

Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Waters Edge. Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico, he holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Awards
2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
2020 Whiting Award in Poetry
National Poetry Series
Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry
Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest

Books by Jake Skeets

Poetry
Poems
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Jake Skeets
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With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a queer, indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With Horses, Skeets tracks the shifting land of the Navajo Nation—what changes, and what stays the same, in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years?

Foreword by Jake Skeets

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