The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, March 1, 2024
Time: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. EST
Where: A/P/A Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, New York, NY
Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light will read as part of the “Not One Without the Other:” A Reading and Conversation on Creativity and Community,” at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. In addition to Blaeser, this reading and conversation features George Abraham , Samiya Bashir, Cathy Linh Che, Deborah Paredez, and Glenn Shaheen. They will explore what it means to lead, create, and write, centering the idea “not one without the other.”
The event is free and open to the public. This is an in-person event, and registration is required.
About the book:
Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time. With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems.
