Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. A fluent speaker of the Chickasaw language, poet, and an award-winning artist, he holds a PhD in Native Language Revitalization from the University of Oklahoma. He writes and makes art on the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Ada, Oklahoma. Hinson, whose Chickasaw name Lokosh translates as “Gourd,” is of the Imatapo (Their Lean-to People) house group and Kowishto’ (Panther) clan. During my residency I will be working on my debut poetry collection, entitled, “with my tongue half dead: poems,” and a follow-up collection entitled, “I carried my prisoner with me in a silk handkerchief: poems.”