The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Time: Reception at 4 p.m., Reading 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., MDT
Where: MoCNA, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM
Kimberly Blaeser, author of of Ancient Light, Poems and Deboarah Taffa, Creative Writing Director at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA), will both read at “A MoCNA Moment–Reading Corner Event.” Blaeser is a member of the MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts working with students in the creative writing program. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will take place with books available for purchase.
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.
