This is Where

Poetry collection by Louise Waakaaigan recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem There is Where. In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K. Waakaaigan lets us hear the winds of flutes even as she writes from concrete plains of prison. In the tradition of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Marilyn Buck this poet lets word fly through and beyond prison walls. A multilayered origin story This is Where refuses to duck the contradictions of time place and belonging.