Steve Pacheco is the guest with Pakatelas host Michael Medrano. Pacheco is from the Lower Sioux Indian Community, a small reservation in southwestern Minnesota, where he currently resides. He is the co-author of Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008), and has recently been a guest editor for the literary journal Yellow Medicine […]
Archives for February 2014
The 185-Page Hipster Accessory
WHEN FRIENDS ASK TO READ the manuscript they’ve been hearing me talk about for so long, I find myself filling with white-hot shame. It’s wonderful they ask, but I’m certain they’re just being polite. “Are you sure?” I respond, implying they should seriously consider this for a few more weeks. But they always say yes. […]
Mile 10
AS I RUN THROUGH THE WOODS in Hell, Michigan, I am conscious of only three things: The horizontal blue ribbons marking the trail, My beautiful, brand-new sparkling engagement ring, And the fact that, aside from my lime-green running shoes, I am completely naked. It is the first time I’ve ever really thanked god that I […]