The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2026
Time: 2 p.m., CDT
Where: Washburn University, 1700 SW College Ave, Topeka, KS
Denise Low, author of House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, will speak at the Kansas Book Festival in Topeka, Kansas. She will participate in the panel “Family Research and Remembrance,” along with authors Dennis Garcia and Melanie Bonner Thomas. The panel takes place 2 p.m., Saturday, September 26, at the Washburn Library. All festival events are free and open to the public. Every year in late September, the Festival features Kansas-connected authors from all ranges of their career, from award-winning to emerging, spanning the worlds of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s books.
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.
