Indigenous Peoples Day Poetry Reading with dg nanouk okpik and Orlando White

Name: Indigenous Peoples Day Poetry Reading with dg nanouk okpik and Orlando White
Start: 2024-10-12T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-10-12T17:00:00-06:00
Location: 3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM | Santa Fe, NM

dg nanouk okpik is an Inuit poet, specifically Iñupiaq. She received the American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, Corpse Whale (2012). In 2023 she was the recipient of a Windham Campbell Literature Prize for poetry[1] and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Orlando White is from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. White earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (2015) and Bone Light (2009), a collection of poems Kazim Ali described as a “careful excavation on language and letters and the physical body.” White’s work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. The recipient of a residency from the Lannan Foundation, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, and in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.