The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 7-9 p.m., PDT
Where: Santa Rosa Arts Center, 312 South A St., Santa Rosa, CA
Poet Denise Low will read from her book, House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, for the Speakeasy Reading Series at Santa Rosa Arts Center. Low is a former Kansas Poet Laureate and a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets.
This in-person event is free and open to the public. Light 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.
