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Born	February 2nd, 1978 Washington State
Education	Naropa Institute

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Cedar Sigo

Cedar Sigo (born February 2nd, 1978 in Washington State) is a writer of art, literature and film.

Background

Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation near Washington State and home schooled from the eighth grade until 1999, when he moved to San Francisco. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder Colorado. It was there that he studied and interacted with well known poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.^[1]

Sigo is the author of several books and pamphlets of poetry, some of which have been included in various magazines and anthologies. Sigo has given poetry readings in various locations across the United States, including the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center and the San Francisco Art Institute. ^[2] His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, Shampoo, RealPoetik, Puppy Flowers, Suspect Thoughts, 6x6, and New York Nights, among other journals.^[3] Currently, he still lives in San Francisco and is the editor of the Old Gold Press.

Works

Goodnight Nurse (Angry Dog Press, 2001)
Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003) ISBN 9780972768412
Selected Writings (Expanded Second Edition) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) ISBN 9781933254050
Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008)
Stranger in Town (City Lights Publishers, 2010) ISBN 9780872865365

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 ==Background==
-Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation near [[Seattle Washington]] and home schooled from the eighth grade onward. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study writing and poetics at The [[Naropa Institute]] in [[Boulder Colorado]] where he studied with [[Allen Ginsberg]], Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger, among other poets.<ref>[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=99072]</ref>
+Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation near [[Washington State]] and home schooled from the eighth grade until 1999, when he moved to San Francisco. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study at [[Naropa Institute]]'s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in [[Boulder Colorado]]. It was there that he studied  and interacted with well known poets, such as [[Allen Ginsberg]], Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.<ref>[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=99072]</ref>
-Sigo is the author of seven books and pamphlets of poetry. His poems have been included in many magazines and anthologies, and he has published poetry books and magazines under the Old Gold imprint. He participated in “Coordinates: Indigenous Writing Now,” a conference at California College of the Arts.<ref>[http://blog.sfmoma.org/authors/alumni/wentley/]</ref> Sigo has given poetry readings at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, P.S. One Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center, San Francisco Art Institute, and Beyond Baroque. He has collaborated with visual artists including Colter Jacobsen, Frank Haines, Cecilia Dougherty, and Will Yackulic.<ref>[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=99072]</ref> Currently, he lives in San Francisco.
+Sigo is the author of several books and pamphlets of poetry, some of which have been included in various magazines and anthologies. Sigo has given poetry readings in various locations across the [[United States]], including the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center and the San Francisco Art Institute. <ref>[http://blog.sfmoma.org/authors/alumni/wentley/]</ref> His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, Shampoo, RealPoetik, Puppy Flowers, Suspect Thoughts, 6x6, and New York Nights, among other journals.<ref>[http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/193325405X/selected-writings-2nd-revised-edition.aspx]</ref> Currently, he still lives in San Francisco and is the editor of the Old Gold Press.
 ==Works==
+*''Goodnight Nurse'' (Angry Dog Press, 2001)
 *''Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003) ISBN 9780972768412
 *''Selected Writings (Expanded Second Edition)'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) ISBN 9781933254050