Now make room in your mouth grassgrassgrass Layli Long Soldier The First Nations of North America practiced poetry long before the arrival of white settlers. Their languages, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz (Mohawk), represent “the foundation of the American poetic lexicon.” But what is the role of indigenous poets today? And what exactly do we mean by the generalization of the poetry of the first or original…