Colleen twofeathers biography
A Two Spirit, Emmy Award-winning creator based in Seattle, WA. Originally from New Mexico, they spent their childhood moving and exploring Indigenous cultures.!
✨️ Colleen has done a few workshops with me and recently she brought along some of her creations to show me.
the day i stole a yellow boat by Colleen TwoFeathers
Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer. Our current guest editor is Sandy Bot-Miller,a poet and artist.
One of the “founding mothers” of a small poetry blog created as a safe haven for women to read and critique each other’s work, Colleen TwoFeathers is not afraid to explore whatever moves her deeply or tickles her funny bone.
I’m especially moved by poems she writes related to seasonal changes, birds, grandchildren, depression, and a vast array of social justice issues. the day i stole a yellow boat paints a strong visual portrait of how slowing down and spending time in nature can often bring oneself back to the center of one’s poetic life.
Sandy Bot-Miller
the day i stole a yellow boat
Colleen TwoFeathers
i couldnt write a poem
so i stole a yellow boat
sitting calm on the bank
its stone house up the shore
that boat had wooden
slats that gl