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Ni Una Más / Not One More: Femicide & the Politics of Representation
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Four poets and a prose writer, two who are Indigenous and three who are Latinx, discuss the poetics of solidarity taking on the history of femicide at the US/Mexico border and equally devastating record of murdered and disappeared Indigenous women across US and Canada. Together they move beyond arguments involving poetry of witness and documentary poetics to discuss, as compromised individuals, the politics of representation and writing as a place to build alliances and community.
Participants
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2019), Washington State poet laureate (2018–2021), and Seattle's first civic poet (2015–2017) She is the author of This City, Killing Marías, One River, A Thousand Voices, and Cipota under the Moon (forthcoming April 2022).
Valerie Martínez's books of poetry include Count (2021), Each and Her (2010), And They Called It Horizon (2010), World to World (2005), and Absence, Luminescent (1999 & 2010). She was the poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008–2010.
Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, Tributaries, won a 2016 American Book Award. In 2015, Da’ was a Made at Hugo House Fellow and a Jack Straw Fellow.
Nina Maria Lozano is associate professor with the Department of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book, Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border, is published with the Ohio State University Press.
Sasha LaPointe is a Coast Salish writer from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribes with a focus on creative nonfiction and poetry. She is the author of the upcoming memoir Red Paint: An Ancestral Autobiography and teaches creative writing at the University of Washington's Tacoma campus.
