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Fri25Mar20222:20 pmPennsylvania Convention Center (In-person & online)
The Light of the World Came Through
(LeAnne Howe, Kim Blaeser, Heid Erdrich)
Panelists discuss the making of the landmark anthology When The Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. The poetry, songs, and chants in the anthology span four centuries and includes 161 Native nations poets. There is nothing like it that can account for the lands and the poets and poetry that came from these lands. Panelists will discuss the editorial structure of the book that begins in the East to North and continues West and then to the South.
2022 AWP Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers CaucusFriday March 25, 2022 5:00pm 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level PhiladelphiaKimberly Blaeser, Rena Priest, and Deborah Taffa — Shauna Osborn, Organizer
Kim at Returning the Gift Festival, 2012 in Milwaukee, Indian Summer Stage.
Past Events
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Fri04Dec20207:00 pmOnline
Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place
“Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place,” Digital Poetry Event, December 4th, 7 p.m. Eastern (6 Central, 5 Mountain).Curated by In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets. Sponsored by Tippet Rise Art Center and Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The evening's program will include short films by emerging and celebrated Indigenous poets, in which they will read their own work and recite other poems from the anthology.
Readers will include Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation), Jake Skeets (Diné), Brandy Nalani McDougall (Kanaka Maoli), Sy Hoahwah (Yapaituka Comanche and Southern Arapaho), Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and M. L. Smoker (Assiniboine and Sioux). Poems by the late poets Adrian Louis (Lovelock Paiute), b: william bearheart (Anishinaabe–St. Croix), and Louis Little Coon Oliver (Mvskoke) will also be performed.
A discussion between LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and Jennifer Foerster (Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma), two of the anthology's editors, will also be featured, as well as video of Tippet Rise's inspiring landscape and musical programs.
The program on December 4 will stream on YouTube, the Tippet Rise website, and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website. We hope you can make it!
https://tippetrise.org/news/december-4-songs-at-the-confluence-indigenous-poets-on-place
