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1/2 Diné + 1/4 Navajo + 2 TBSP Táchiinii + 2 TSP Tódichiinii

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Found some old footage (nay) on a camera that is not my iPhone. #nay from Northern Arizona Book Festival

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Happy 50th Birthday to my handsome Byron! I love you & am so happy for all to come!

So much to look forward to & I’m excited to do it all with you.

Thanks for all you do for our little family 💙

Love you always
Seth

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Doing a little mini book tour in NM next month 🥰 #newmexicochili #booktour #breakfastburrito

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Poets graduate ✨ baby poets against empire ✨ moms against baby faces on social media too much, I guess✨ poets I admire & friends I adore 🌳🌳🌳 after 3 years with @westerngpcw which started as an MFA in nature writing and ended with another concentration in poetry, we finally graduated (some of us again) and finished our last summer residency in Colorado. I am deeply grateful for the community I found at Western and the support of my teachers, cohort & the program through becoming a mother to: a beautiful little human, a memoir-in-essays thesis project, and now a collection of poems. What a heart-filling and life changing time it has been.

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We’ve been getting questions about #jdubfest26 and we don’t want to leave you hanging. Let us know if there’s anything else we can answer for you like how many burgers we can eat in one sitting.

Coming through North American Indian Days today in Browning? We’ll be there 👋🏽

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If you catch us around town tomorrow flyering—give us an okii 👋🏽

Take one of our whimsical and empowering @stella.nall designs for your keeping.

Full events list is up on our website in our bio ⬆️ along with a little more about our speakers and special movie event @theroxy406. We’ll be sharing more about our speakers along with additional James Welch trivia cos his work has made this festival possible 🎓

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Can’t believe we are two-ish weeks out! We’re back this summer from July 15-18, 2026, thanks to our friends at @missoulatheatre @missoulaartmuseum @theroxy406 who are hosting our speakers & guests. All of our events are free for you to attend & more info ⬆️ on our website along with links to donate plz 🙏🏽🎉📕

#JDubfest #welchfest #jdubfest26 #nativelit #nativeliterature

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All the places we’ve been, seen & experienced has been such a journey.

Now we hit our 20 year anniversary & I’m excited to see all the next journeys.

Love you forever & ever.
Happy Anniversary my love.

Seth
(Your Statler)

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Episode 18, "Story Mapping with Poet, Essayist, and Instructor, Byron Aspaas" is live! 🎉

In this episode of The Heart Path Podcast, we follow Navajo roads to academia, switch paths from engineering to writing, and change the cadence of running to the peddle of mountain biking, as we process grief through words and story mapping.

Byron F. Aspaas is Diné. He is Táchii’nii, born for Tódich’iinii, and raised within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah, Byron received his BFA and MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in creative writing. His writing reflects upon the eradication of Navajoland, which draws readers into discourse about preservation with Diné culture and land. His writing can be found in Weber: The Contemporary West, Denver Quarterly, International Writing Program Collections, The Rumpus, Santa Fe Noir, Shapes of Native Nonfiction and The Diné Reader. Byron will begin as lecturer with Colorado State University – Pueblo (Fall ‘25) and will continue as poetry mentor for Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He lives with his partner, six dogs, and four cats in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Podcast link in bio.

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Story time with herbs & syrups ;)

All restocked 💙

Seth

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@noazbookfest photo dump. 📝✏️📚✨🌻✨ #northernbookfestival #flagstaff #rezreaders #nativenerds

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