INDIGENOUS VOICES in Healdsburg October 9 and November 12

[Larry Robinson]

INDIGENOUS VOICES AT THE 222-PAUL MAHDER GALLERY

Healdsburg, 222 Healdsburg Ave. www.the222.org <http://www.the222.org/>
·         Oct. 9, Sunday, 7 pm, Jennifer Foerster (Muscogee Creek member) and Denise Low
·         Nov. 12, Saturday, 6 pm, Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag heritage) and Denise Low

 THE 222 presents Indigenous Voices; literary events that celebrate the work of two award-winning Indigenous American poets, and explore language, culture, and experiences from a Native artist’s perspective. Prize-winning poet and Healdsburg resident Denise Low (of European and Lenape/Munsee heritage) will join these remarkably accomplished women in conversation, readings and an opportunity for book signings.

 Sunday, October 9, 7:00PM 

POET JENNIFER FOERSTER IN CONVERSATION WITH DENISE LOW
Eco-poet Jennifer Foerster (Muscogee Creek member) with Poet Denise Low 
Indigenous Voices -Jennifer Foerster in conversation with Denise Low – The 222 <https://the222.org/jennifer-foerster-phd-in-conversation-with-denise-low/>
 Nationally known poet Jennifer Foerster reads from her latest book and joins Healdsburg poet Denise Low in a conversation about inner workings of the poetry world, plus Indigenous experience.Foerster, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, explores the language and culture of her heritage in her writings. Other themes include ecology, history, and the human capacity for violence. As an assistant to former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Foerster has unique insights into the workings of today’s poetry world. What is the work of a national poet laureate? What about our local Sonoma County poet? How do poetry and political commitment intersect? These are questions Foerster will explore in conversation.

  "Merging the poetic with the prophetic, Foerster offers a startling vision of how to navigate this broken world and its resilient beauty." ~ Rigoberto González, Rutgers MFA Director

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave, 2022),  Bright Raft in the Afterweather (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and Leaving Tulsa (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, holds a PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver, and teaches Poetry at the Rainier Writing Workshop among other programs. She has served as the literary assistant to the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She was asked to be part of the founding board of Indigenous Native Poets in 2020. Foerster grew up living internationally, is of European (German/Dutch) and Mvskoke descent and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco. http://jenniferfoerster.com/ <http://jenniferfoerster.com/>
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, won the Editor’s Choice Red Mountain Press Poetry Award for Shadow Light. Other publications are hybrid memoirs The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press,) and Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays in a Time of Pestilence (Meadowlark, Sept. 2022); Wing (Red Mountain, Hefner Heitz Award finalist); Casino Bestiary (Spartan); and Jackalope (fiction, Red Mountain). She is co-author of Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors (U. of Nebraska Press, Ks. Notable Book). Her PhD in literature and creative writing is from the University of Kansas, and her MFA is from Wichita State. At Haskell Indian Nations University, she founded the creative writing program. She teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. Board memberships include Indigenous Native Poets (In-Na-Po) and Associated Writers and Writing Programs (past president and contributing editor). Her heritage includes British Isles, German, and Lenape/Munsee (Delaware). She lives in California’s Sonoma County.www.deniselow.net <https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deniselow.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7CBARKERDK%40uwec.edu%7Cff571df9fcaf49da544a08d817a2c361%7Cdd068b97759349388b3214faef2af1d8%7C0%7C0%7C637285335111035034&sdata=nwazwyfe0mmbKBL3T%2FuYTS4FxiL7haYdCT%2BxpuErNpc%3D&reserved=0>
Saturday, November 12, 6:00PM

POET & PUBLISHER LUCILLE LANG DAY IN CONVERSATION WITH DENISE LOW Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag heritage) with Denise Low

Indigenous Voices – Lucille Lang Day in conversation with Denise Low – The 222 <https://the222.org/indigenous-voices-lucille-lang-day-in-conversation-with-denise-low/>
 Poet-activist Lucille Lang Day reads from her poetry and engages in conversation with Healdsburg poet Denise Low. Day, a multiply talented writer of Wampanoag descent, founded and continues to publish Scarlet Tanager Books. She knows the book world as a writer, a publisher, and everything in between. In this presentation, she shares her experiences as a successful writer and as a successful small-press editor. She challenges stereotypes of many kinds: She is a poet and a scientist; a Native person and a prize-winning writer. Lucille Lang Day has edited some of the most influential recent California anthologies of poetry focused on California ecopoetry, Indigenous peoples, and the intersection of science and verse. Join THE 222 in this appearance by a fascinating North Bay citizen who has found ways to make her voice heard as well as the voices of many others.

READ /  Poetry Foundation, “Tooth Painter,” <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-lang-day> poem by Lucille Lang Day

WATCH / Berkeley Public Library poetry reading <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFTu2I5Nw4k>, Lucille Lang Day

WATCH / “How to Publish a Memoir <https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lucille+Lang+Day&&view=detail&mid=E9346DDC327CF4A8AC2FE9346DDC327CF4A8AC2F&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DLucille%2BLang%2BDay%26FORM%3DHDRSC3>,” Lucille Lang Day

 “Within the glowing embers of this book, storyteller, poet, and scientist Lucille Lang Day weaves together the threads of her ancestors...” - Praise for Becoming an Ancestor, Blue Lyra Review

Lucille Lang Day is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks. Her latest collection is Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place (Blue Light Press, 2020). She has also edited the anthology Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery, and she coedited Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Other publications are two children’s books and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, an MA in zoology, and a Ph.D. in science/mathematics education from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California. She is of Wampanoag, British, and Swiss/German descent. www.lucillelangday.com <http://www.lucillelangday.com/>
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, won the Editor’s Choice Red Mountain Press Poetry Award for Shadow Light. Other publications are hybrid memoirs The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press,) and Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays in a Time of Pestilence (Meadowlark, Sept. 2022); Wing (Red Mountain, Hefner Heitz Award finalist); Casino Bestiary (Spartan); and Jackalope (fiction, Red Mountain). She is co-author of Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors (U. of Nebraska Press, Ks. Notable Book). Her PhD in literature and creative writing is from the University of Kansas, and her MFA is from Wichita State. At Haskell Indian Nations University, she founded the creative writing program. She teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. Board memberships include Indigenous Native Poets (In-Na-Po) and Associated Writers and Writing Programs (past president and contributing editor). Her heritage includes British Isles, German, and Lenape/Munsee (Delaware). She lives in California’s Sonoma County.www.deniselow.net <https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deniselow.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7CBARKERDK%40uwec.edu%7Cff571df9fcaf49da544a08d817a2c361%7Cdd068b97759349388b3214faef2af1d8%7C0%7C0%7C637285335111035034&sdata=nwazwyfe0mmbKBL3T%2FuYTS4FxiL7haYdCT%2BxpuErNpc%3D&reserved=0>
In the spirit of truth, equity and inclusion of all community members, THE 222 recognizes that our building is on the traditional territories of Miwok and Pomo people.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/poetrylovers/attachments/20220929/3dc0bd4d/attachment.htm>