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Matthew Jake Skeets returns to poetry with a new collection that examines how the Navajo Nation’s landscape changes under environmental pressure and what persists as the land shifts.

Ann Marie Chischilly, a Diné attorney and higher education leader, has been named one of the grand marshals for the June 20, 2026, Pride in the Pines parade, organizers announced Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.

Sydney Benally’s shining season as a BYU Cougar has sparked attention across the country.

From competing as a standout guard at San Jose State to playing a role in Netflix’s Rez Ball, Analyss Benally is no stranger to the pressures of the spotlight.

“To serve as Poet Laureate of Colorado is to write from a landscape that teaches us how to listen. Listen to mountains that hold silence like an old wisdom, to rivers that speak in silver tongues of time, to plains that remind us of breath, distance, and belonging.