Uncover the Rich and Revealing Insights into the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Dynamic Past

Alexander Lawrence Posey was a poet from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Inspired by naturalist writers such as Thoreau and Burroughs, Posey chose to write about the landscape of his childhood. Drawing on his Muscogee traditions and culture and adding a bit of humor, Posey was able to capture the beauty of his surroundings in a truly unique way.

THE CLASSIC -The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey BY Alexander Lawrence Posey

Posey wasn’t just a poet. He founded the Eufaula Indian Journal, a daily newspaper, and served as the secretary of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention. Some of Posey’s most important works, however, were his Fus Fixico Letters. These satirical letters were written by Posey’s fictional persona, Fus Fixico, and told detailed accounts of the daily life of a Muscogee traditionalist. Part humor and part nostalgia, the letters provided social and political commentary on the upheaval between the Creek Nation and the United States.

The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey

by Alexander Lawrence Posey 

"He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known as the Five Civilized Tribes."

Published posthumously in 1910, The Poems of Lawrence Alexander Posey is both a collection of poetry and a short memoir by one of the late nineteenth century's leading Native American voices, Alexander Posey. Born near Eufaula, Posey was the eldest of twelve children who were raised within the Creek Nation but incorporated into European culture. Being fluent in the Muscogee language, Posey would be encouraged by his father to learn English, ultimately leading to his love of the written word and his exposure to the Indian Journal where he would go on to submit his poetry.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey is a classic of Native American literature reimagined for the modern reader.

OUR MODERN COMPANION - Poet Warrior: A Memoir BY Joy Harjo

In Muscogee tradition, status, property, and hereditary positions are passed down through matralinial lines. Alexander Posey’s mother, Nancy Phillips Posey (Creek name Pohas Harjo), was a member of the Harjo family. Former US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo is Muscogee and a member of the same family.

Joy Harjo published her first poetry collection in 1975. Since then, she has become the first Native American US poet Laureate, won incredible awards, and become an important activist for Native American affairs. She is a prolific writer and has studied in classrooms across the country. When Joy Harjo speaks, people listen.

In 2022, Harjo wrote her second personal memoir, Poet Warrior: A Memoir. This book weaves together poems, songs, and stories from Harjo’s life. She combines tales of her ancestors with fond memories of her childhood and inspiration from poetry she admires to create a book that is one of a kind and could only be written by Harjo.

Poet Warrior: A Memoir

by Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.

Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth--owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member.

Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.