The University of Arizona Press
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Time: 6 p.m., PDT
Where: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM
Laura Da’, author of Severalty, will read at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe on August 11. She will read with poet Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. The event is free and open to the public. The reading will take place just before the August 15-16 Santa Fe Indian Market. Held around the historic Plaza, this world-renowned market showcases over 1,000 Native artists from the U.S. and Canada, featuring art, fashion, and food. Da’ is the author of Tributaries, an American Book Award winner, and Instruments of the True Measure, a Washington State Book Award winner. She is Eastern Shawnee, and she lives in Washington with her family.
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.
