In her 1898 poem “Iris of Life,” she muses on how good deeds can overcome life’s heavier moments. The kind things we do—the ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

Behind this, of course, in the poem’s consciousness, is the idea of the word made flesh: “There are moments when the body is as numinous / as words, days that are the good flesh continuing”.