The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, November 15, 2024
Time: 7 p.m., PDT
Where: The 222, 222 Healdsburg Ave. Healdsburg, CA
Poet Denise Low will read from her book, House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, for the Indigenous Thanksgiving Traditions event at The 222 in Healdsburg. Low is a former Kansas Poet Laureate and a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets. She will join Lucille Lang Day in sharing traditions, comments, and poetry on Indigenous traditions and their connection to present-day Thanksgiving.
This is an in-person event. General tickets are $20 with the option for a student discount with I.D. Tickets are available here.
About the book:
Intertwining a lyrical voice with historical texts, 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.
