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Track

Whiteman, Roberta Hill. "A Song for What Never Arrives." Star Quilt. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1984.

"Lynn Point Trail." Star Quilt. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1984.

"Home Before Dark." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Letting Go." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Praising Corn." Uncollected.

"Acknowledgment." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"No Longer." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Traveling." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Of Light, Water and Gathered Dust." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Preguntas." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"Our Different Story." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

"You Call Me Less Than All I Am." Philadelphia Flowers. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

Reading

In this reading, Silko engages in "what I really love to do"--storytelling in the Laguna tradition. Most of the stories and poems told here would be collected in the 1981 volume Storyteller.

Reading

N. Scott Momaday reads poems and prose that would go on to appear in The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991 (1992), The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (1997), and The Ancient Child (1989), as well as two unpublished poems.

Reading

Ofelia Zepeda reads from Where Clouds Are Formed (2008). This reading was originally given with Christopher Burawa.

Reading

Luci Tapahonso reads from A Radiant Curve (2008). This reading was originally given with Alison Hawthorne Deming.

Reading

Lorna Dee Cervantes reads primarily from Emplumada (1981) and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (1991). She also reads several poems that would go on to be collected in Drive: The First Quartet (2006). 

Reading

Sherman Alexie reads widely from his work and engages the audience with stories characterized by his signature humor.

Reading

N. Scott Momaday reads from across his body of work, sharing excerpts from his novel The Ancient Child (1989) together with poems from his soon-to-be-published In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991 (1992). After opening the reading with three humorous epitaphs, Momaday discusses Set-angya, a 19th century Kiowa chief who reappears throughout his work.

Reading

Natalie Diaz reads poems from When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012) as well as new and uncollected work. This reading was originally given with Eduardo C. Corral to inaugurate the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.

Reading

Simon J. Ortiz reads prose and poetry, including an excerpt from an in-progress manuscript of an epic poem and selections from Woven Stone (1992), from Sand Creek (2000), and Out There Somewhere (2002).

Reading

Ofelia Zepeda reads from Ocean Power (1995) and Where Clouds Are Formed (2008); she also reads several new poems. Some poems are performed in Tohono O'odham and English.

Reading

Richard Nelson reads from Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America (1997), including excerpts from the chapters "Heart of The Hunter" and "In Search of Eden." These chapters cover topics such as hunting and predation, and they are written through the lens of the author's experiences as an anthropologist in Alaska.

Reading

Roberta J. Hill opens with two poems from her first collection, Star Quilt (1984), before reading more recent work that would later be collected in Philadelphia Flowers (1996). Both collections were published under the name Roberta Hill Whiteman.

Reading

Luci Tapahonso reads from poems published throughout her career, many of them fueled by personal anecdotes.

Reading

Luci Tapahonso reads from her collections Seasonal Woman (1982) and A Breeze Swept Through (1987), beginning with a piece that combines spoken poetry with song.

Reading

Ofelia Zepeda reads from her poetry collections When It Rains, Papago and Pima Poetry = Mat hekid o ju, 'O'odham Na-cegitodag (1982), Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), and Jewed 'I-hoi, Earth Movements (1997). She reads the poems first in O'odham, and then in English.

Reading

Diane Glancy reads a range of works on the theme of story, including a number of poems that would subsequently appear in The West Pole (1997) and (Ado)ration (1999). She also reads excerpts from Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996) and closes the reading with a brief extract from Firesticks (1993). 

Reading

Joy Harjo reads from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015) and How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (2002). She also plays flute and soprano saxophone. This reading was given as part of the Climate Change & Poetry Series.

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