The University of Arizona Press
Date: Sunday, December 1, 2024
Time: 3 p.m., PDT
Where: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center , 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
Poet Denise Low will read from her book, House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, at The Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley, California. Low is a former Kansas Poet Laureate and a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Poet Lucille Lang Day will also read from Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery.
This free in-person event is hosted by Poetry Flash. Refreshments will be provided.
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.
