Publications
Essay
Forging Magazine – Connectivity
- “We Connect Whole Families” – May 2024
Tallgrass Artist Residency – Reflection – Oct 2025
Poetry
Green Linden Press – Issue 14 – Indigenous Eco-poetry
Anaheim Poetry Journal – April 2023
- “Where the River Forgot Itself”
- “Highest and Best Use”
- “Suburban Ecosystem”
Poetry Northwest – Summer/Fall 2023
- “Coyote Poem”
About Place Journal – October 2023
Work-in-progress
I’m working to publish my first chapbook and full-length collections:
The chapbook manuscript, CHANNELS, asks questions about relationship to the land to where diaspora communities have been displaced. The speaker contends that how the land has been treated is a template for how the people who live there are treated, and that any separation between self and the land is contrived. This chapbook investigates the impact of colonization in Southern California, specifically Anaheim, Orange County, and attempts to understand the ways in which the βtamingβ of the land like the Santa Ana river being channelized and concretized plays out in the reproduction of an oppressive, restrictive culture where wildness and true freedom is discouraged. Ultimately, CHANNELS demands that the liberation of rivers is important to the liberation of us all. A merging of both documentary poetics and personal history, the speaker looks deeply at what it means to truly love where you have grown up despite its flaws, and that the work to embrace its shattered pieces and make a place whole works to also heal the self.
The full-length manuscript, Dispatches to Return, asks questions about the responsibility and belonging from which we have been displaced and how we might return to wholeness. Inglis assembles a history of the colonization of her Osage homelands in Missouri and Oklahoma, as well as the story of a little-known diaspora community of Osages who settled in Southern California fleeing white supremacist violence in the 1920s, and her experiences of being raised amidst West Anaheim communities dominated by gang violence and divestment due to racism. Important to this context is that most of these Osages who fled were mixed or white-passing, and in moving to the Los Angeles basin and other cities contributed in some way to this violent colonial project. She also parallels this history with her work as a tenantsβ rights organizer in the Bay Area in the losing battle to prevent the displacement of others. Her poems reckon with the past while searching for a path forward and complicate the work we need to do collectively for a better world. Employing the Osage language to deepen understanding of current social problems, she shares perspectives from past and present Osage culture to help find a way for both the Osage people and all of us.
Awards/Honors
Tallgrass Artist Residency Program, August 2025
Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow, 2023-2024
Best of the Net nomination, Anaheim Poetry Review, 2023
Poetry Northwest, James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets finalist, 2023
Swamppink Indigenous Writers Prize finalist, 2023
Hayden’s Ferry Review inaugural Indigenous Poets Prize finalist, 2023
Aimee Inglis 