How can we talk about trauma? Laura Da' and Richard Siken examine the aftermath of illness, delving into devastation, healing, loss, and limitation. Through deeply personal narratives and precise writing about the body, these poets explore how we might begin to talk about our altered lives.

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sat, Mar 14, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Laura Da', Richard Siken
Moderator: Dillon Clark
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith

Do our memories describe the past or reinvent it? Three poets allow us intimate access to their histories, traumas, and triumphs, demonstrating how poetry can be a vehicle to confront legacies of violence, while embracing radical methods of survival and resistance.

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sun, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Robin Becker, Laura Da', Sophia Terazawa
Moderator: Farid Matuk
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith

Severalty Severalty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock’s lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection. With clear roots in her first two books of poetry, Tributaries and Instruments of the True Measure, this volume joins the author’s poetic trilogy with a deeply personal accounting of history, community, and selfhood. Weaving the past and present into a stunning tapestry, this collection is a powerful testament to Indigenous endurance and creativity, offering readers a deeply insightful and necessary work.

University of Arizona Press, Booth #247 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 15, 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Poetry

Author: Laura Da'