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 […]
Tiny Fire: The Eastside Years
1 MOTHER CHASING ME THROUGH the apartment parking lot, pregnant. Her belly, round like a basketball, my sister in it. Me looking back and running, finger pointing at my mother, her stern eyes, wet with anger, the small me laughing out loud, Kassandra cursing me from the womb, years later I would put her in […]
The Stones, The Beasties, and My Daughter’s Voice: A Poet’s Favorite Live Bands
GRANDADDY PLAYED TO A CROWD of friends and loyal fans in Modesto, California sometime before Jason Lytle dismantled the band. It was a tiny bar on south Ninth Street. Some very happy people were treated to hits from Sumday and gems from Earlimart, who were on hand for the party. A favorite lyric, from “The Group Who Couldn’t […]