The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 7 p.m., PST
Where: Open Books, 108 Cherry St., Seattle, WA
Laura Da’, author of Severalty, will read at “Other People’s Poems” at Open Books on October 18. She will join poets Rivka Clifton and Esther Lin in this event hosted by Gabrielle Bates. Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher who studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the author of Tributaries, an American Book Award winner, and Instruments of the True Measure, a Washington State Book Award winner. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee, and she lives in Washington with her family. The event is free and open to the public; masks are required.
About the book:
Severalty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock’s lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection.
With clear roots in her first two books of poetry, Tributaries and Instruments of the True Measure, this volume joins the author’s poetic trilogy with a deeply personal accounting of history, community, and selfhood.
