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Tanaya's interest in poetry began in her senior year of high school with the passing of her grandfather. Tanaya attended
Stanford University and although she set out to become a lawyer, Tanaya switched to English in her sophomore year, graduating in 2008 with a BA in English with an emphasis on
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2012 “Somewhere Being
Written,” “Love in a Time of Blood Quantum,” “W(hole):Self-Medication,” and “Ten Little Indians.” performed by Poetic Theater Productions Company in NYC.
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ABQ with a talk called "Igniting
Healing." In 2015, Winder co-curated "Sing Our River Red," a traveling exhibit of single earrings to raise awareness of Canada's epidemic of
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which includes seven tracks including "History of the
Breaking Hearts." The EP also features Indigenous artists such as Waln, Jon Chavarillo, Delbert Anderson, and
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314:"Rhapsody in Reservation Blues," "Broken Tulips," "Preface to Lost Intimacies," and "The Significance of a Hanging"
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is a performance poet, writer, motivational speaker, and educator. She was raised on the
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254:"Teaching the Riff in Being Tuned to the Rez Blues"
343:Winder made contact with a Sicangu Lakota rapper,
665:"Poet Tanaya Winder inspires the next generation"
430:"About Tanaya Winder | Academy of American Poets"
385:2014 Nominated for Best New Poets 2014 Anthology
532:"Poet Tanaya Winder leads readers back to love"
334:published in Malpais Review (Spring 2012 issue)
200:"Love Lessons in a Time of Settler Colonialism"
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302:"To the Offset Metronome: On Breaking Rhythm"
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248:"Patrick Would Never Say the Word Love"
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260:"What John Wayne Couldn't Have Known"
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584:"Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder"
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308:"Softly: How to Evaporate"
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236:"A Song for Redemption"
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