With calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs鈥� poems sing her people, Sauk-Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. 鈥淟and we live on land,鈥� she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose historic narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances of her tribes in poems that take the reader to the heart of deep conversations.