The University of Arizona Press
Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00-3:45 p.m., PDT
Where: Brower Center Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Denise Low, author of House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, will speak at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. She will participate in the panel “Indigenous Poetry: Words that Map the Natural World,” along with , Kinsale Drake, Georgina Marie Guardado, and Steven Meadows. The panel will be moderated by by Kim Shuck. Low will also moderate the panel “Living Legacies: Native Authors on Memoir and Memory,” featuring Jennifer Foerster, Chris La Tray, and Terra Trevor. That panel takes place 4:00-4:45 p.m. at Brower Center Goldman Theater. The events are free and open to the public.
About House of Grace, House of Blood:
Intertwining a lyrical voice with historical texts, poet Denise Low brings fresh urgency to the Gnadenhutten Massacre. In 1782, a renegade Pennsylvania militia killed ninety-six pacificist Christian Delawares (Lenapes) in Ohio. Those who escaped, including Indigenous eyewitnesses, relayed their accounts of the atrocity. Like Layli Longsoldier’s Whereas and Simon Ortiz’s from Sand Creek, Low delves into a critical incident of Indigenous peoples’ experiences. Readers will explore with the poet how trauma persists through hundreds of years, and how these peoples have survived and flourished in the subsequent generations.
