Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Horses, which was named one of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. His honors include a Whiting Award, Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, NEA Grant for Arts Projects, and he was the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is currently serving as the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers and Horses. He serves as the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of New Mexico.
- Native Poetics
- Queer Poetics
- Dinétics: Navajo Aesthetics and Poetics
- Indigenous Queer Theories & Poetics
- Ecopoetics, ecocriticism, writing about nature
- Hybrid writing
- Bordertown and Conquest
- Memory
- Temporality and spatiality
- Southwest & Desert Poetics
- Visual poetics
- Artist talks
- Workshops
- Live poetry performances
- Keynote speeches
- Panel discussions
- Class visits
- Commissioned writing