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Redefining Power: Indigenizing the Hybrid Poem
Friday, March 10, 2023
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Five Indigenous poets will read their creative work, define hybrid poetry, and discuss the agency Indigenous writers create within the hybrid form. Here, the hybrid poem is a means to dissect a complex history and hold it accountable. Panelists will consider the role of hybridity in their cultures and languages, and how the inclusion of such elements redistributes power. Panelists will also examine the stigma surrounding hybrid forms, and the intersection between archival and creative work.
Participants
Mary Leauna Christensen, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi and managing editor of The Swamp Literary Magazine. Her work can be found in Cream City Review, The Laurel Review, and Denver Quarterly, among others.
Halee Kirkwood is a poet and descendant of the Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Kirkwood is a writing mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and assistant editor of Runestone Journal. Kirkwood's micro-chap, Exorcising the Catalogue, was published with Rinky Dink Press.
Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, is a recipient of numerous prizes and awards. Her work has appeared in The Hopkins Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Leavings, and Hairstreak Butterfly. Her first book is Rain Scald. She is an inaugural In-Na-Po fellow and a PhD candidate at Florida State University.
Annie Wenstrup received her MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast (Summer 2022). She's a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow and an Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow. She serves on the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference Advisory Committee.
Casandra Lopez, a Chicana / Cahuilla / Tongva / Luiseño writer is the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet. A CantoMundo fellow and Headlands and Hedgebrook resident, she teaches at Northwest Indian College.
