This month brings DANCING EARTH to Colorado ... March 21st: 1-3 pm master class at Naropa University, Boulder , please contact DGrant@naropa.edu to reserve spaceMarch 22nd : 10-1130 master class , and 12-2pm lecture, film screening and open discussion at CU BoulderMarch 23- 24 : Denver PowwowMarch 25 : visit with Cleo Parker Robinson and Susan Richardson of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance EnsembleSpecial congratulations to our colleague Jen Foerster, of IAIA and Stegner Fellow of Stanford, for her new book !
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Leaving Tulsa
By Jennifer EliseFoerster
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An Important New Voice in Native Poetry
In her first book of poetry, Jennifer Elise Foerster weaves together a mythic and geographic exploration of a woman's coming of age.LEAVING TULSA is a book of road elegies and laments as she travels from Oklahoma to the edge of the American continent. Each poem builds on a theme of searching for the lost "self" that crosses biblical, tribal, and ecological mythologies. Foerster is not afraid of the strange or of estrangement. The narrator occupies a space in between and navigates the offbeat experiences of a speaker that is of both Muscogee and European heritage. With bold images and candid language, Foerster challenges the perceptions of what it means to be Native, what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be an American today. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent.Jennifer Elise Foerster has an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she was Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Foerster is of German, Dutch, and Muscogee descent and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Learn more about Foerster at her website at www.jenniferfoerster.com. Collection Link Read Foerster's poem "Relic" from LEAVING TULSA.Follow on facebook at: www.facebook.com/leavingtulsa"Foerster is that rarity in our time of fragmentation and apocalypse: a poet who explores history and pain, yes, but a poet, also, of healing and hope. Leaving Tulsa is heartening and beautiful and necessary."-- Jon Davis |
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