Trevino L. Brings Plenty is an American and Native American: a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA. He's a poet and musician who lives, works, and writes in Portland, Oregon. He is singer/songwriter/guitarist for the musical ensemble Ballads of Larry Drake and has read/performed his work as far away as Amman, Jordan and as close to home as Portland’s Wordstock Festival. Trevino has worked with Primus St. John and Henry Carlile on poetry, studied music composition with Tomas Svoboda, and jazz guitar with Jerry Hahn. Some of his work explores American Indian identity in American culture and how it has, through genealogical history, affected indigenous peoples in the 21st century. As a poet, his subject is urban Indian life; his books include the recent Wakpá Wanági - Ghost River; Real Indian Junk Jewelry; Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets; and an early two-volume chapbook, Dead Indian Road, now in the Multnomah County Library's Special Collections Room.
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