Question: What did Sherman Alexie and Charles Olson have in common?

Context articles: Esther Belin
Charles Olson
Jim Boyd (musician)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Jonathan Evison
Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Slipstream Magazine
Niagara Frontier Review

Esther Belin (born 1968) is a Diné multimedia artist and writer.
 She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as the University of California, Berkeley.
 She is the author of a collection of poetry, "From the Belly of My Beauty," published in 1999 by the University of Arizona Press.
 The book won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000.
 According to a review from "Library Journal", "Belin provides graphic descriptions of the 'wounds' one endures remaining true to a 'native lifestyle.'"
 Sherman Alexie considers Belin to be one of his favorite Native writers.
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.
 Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure.
 He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist of morning."
Jim Boyd (1956 – June 22, 2016) was a Native American singer-songwriter, actor, and member of The Jim Boyd Band on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington.
 Boyd has performed in several groups, including XIT, Greywolf, and Winterhawk.
 Boyd sang four songs with lyrics by Sherman Alexie on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie "Smoke Signals", and also appeared in Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing".
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie.
 The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona", provided the basis of Alexie's screenplay for the film "Smoke Signals".
Jonathan Evison (born 1968), is an American writer best known for his novels "All About Lulu", "West of Here", "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving" and "This is Your Life Harriet Chance!"
.
 His work, often distinguished by its emotional resonance and offbeat humor, has been compared by critics to a variety of authors, most notably J.D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, T.C. Boyle, and John Irving.
 Sherman Alexie has called Evison "the most honest white man alive."
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.
 Much of his writing draws on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes.
 He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by American writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene).
 The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation.
 In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's short story collection "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," meet American blues musician Robert Johnson.
 He sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.
 The three boys start a rock and blues band in Spokane using Johnson's enchanted guitar.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a 2007 novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney.
 The book won several awards, and was the first young adult fiction work by Alexie, a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and songwriter who has previously written adult novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays.
 Alexie stated, "I did [write the book] because so many librarians, teachers, and teenagers kept asking me to write one."
Slipstream is a literary press, founded in 1980 in Niagara Falls, New York, that publishes poetry and short fiction by both new and established writers.
 Charles Bukowski, Sherman Alexie, Gerald Locklin, Wanda Coleman, Lyn Lifshin, David Chorlton, J.P. Dancing Bear, and Terry Godbey are among the many writers whose work has appeared in the pages of "Slipstream" magazine.
 The press also publishes books of poetry by individual writers.
Niagara Frontier Review was an annual small magazine of poetry and prose, edited by Charles Olson, Harvey Brown, and Charles Boer.
 The magazine was published by Harvey Brown in Buffalo, New York, during the years 1964–1966 and ran three issues.
 It was associated with Charles Olson, then at SUNY Buffalo, San Francisco Renaissance poets, and New York avant-garde poets and jazz musicians.
 Submissions included those by Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly, Leroi Jones (Amira Baraka), Ed Dorn, John Wieners, Ray Bremser, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, John Temple , Diane DiPrima, Albert Glover, Fred Wah, the jazz musician Don Cherry, Stephen Rodefer, Herbert Huncke, Charles Boer, Andrew Crozier and Charles Olson.
 The third issue also carried Cantos CX and 116 by Ezra Pound.