

JoAnn Balzer, IAIA Board of Trustee Member and Arts Advocate.Tazbah McCullah (Diné), General Manager, KSFR Radio.Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation), Director, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

Pamela Pierce, Attorney and CEO, Silver Bullet Productions.Kelly Zunie (Cherokee/Zuni Pueblo), Cabinet Secretary, NM Indian Affairs Department.Loretto (Jemez Pueblo), and Phillip Bread (Comanche/Kiowa/Blackfeet) SFPS students Christian Flahive, Faith C.Poets Vivian Carroll (Cherokee) and Chee Brossy (Diné).Stephen Wall (White Earth Reservation), Chair, Indigenous Liberal Studies, IAIA.The project features community members-students, business owners, civic leaders, teachers, college students, spiritual leaders, non-profit leaders, and media personalities-who read their favorite poems in five minutes or less. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s 1998 initiative-it continues to be held in various cities. My Favorite Poem Project is based on former U.S. The events are organized by Luci Tapahonso, professor and inaugural Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, who also directs the Creative Writing Program at UNM. The My Favorite Poem Project is hosted by the UNM English Department and IAIA. Luci Tapahonso during the 2015 My Favorite Poem readings
