"Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum"

Authors

  • Karen M. Poremski Ohio Wesleyan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.264

Keywords:

Native American, museum,

Abstract

This essay brings several contexts together to examine a poem by Trevino Brings Plenty, "Little, Cultural, Teapot Curio Exposes People": Native material rhetorics (stories about objects and what they mean when connected with their communities), Tribalography (how stories bring ideas to life), Brings Plenty’s latest book of poetry, museum collection history, the history of spruce root basketry, and the policies and programming of the Portland Art Museum. When the poem resonates in all of these contexts, it works as a powerful revision of how museum objects have been understood in the past, and presents a new story about the significance of even the most seemingly trivial objects. 

Author Biography

Karen M. Poremski, Ohio Wesleyan University

KAREN M. POREMSKI is an associate professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, in the homelands of the Lenni Lenape people. She teaches classes in Early and 19th-century American literature as well as women's literature, Native literature, composition, and business writing. Her current research project examines the ways contemporary Indigenous writers portray the complex relationships between Native people, museums, and the objects in museums. She also enjoys writing creative nonfiction and poetry.
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Published

2017-12-06

How to Cite

Poremski, K. M. (2017). "Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum". Transmotion, 3(2), 53–78. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.264

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2017 Karen M. Poremski

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