Everything you need to understand or teach Anniversary by Joy Harjo.
Joy Harjo's "Anniversary" is a "creation" poem— that is, it attempts to recount how the world began and when humankind came to be. It is included in the aptly titled collection Map to the Next World, but it differs from many other poems in this book in that its themes and language are not as pessimistic and they do not center on human cruelty. Published in 2000, on the brink of a new millennium...