Denise Low (she/her/hers)

Denise Low is a former Kansas Poet Laureate and a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Her recent books include "Shadow Light: Poems," "The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival" and "A Casino Bestiary." Her "Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors" won a Kansas Notable Book Award. She founded the creative writing program at Haskell Indian Nations University and is past board president of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs.

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Communities: Mixed Race

Book:

House of Grace, House of Blood

Poems
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
October 2024
ISBN 9780816553587
128 pages

An innovative collection of archival poetry, House of Grace, House of Blood weaves images and documents from the 1782 massacre of pacifist Delawares in Gnadenhutten, Ohio into poems that explore contradictions: settler colonists and Indigenous people; violence and reconciliation; body and spirit; history and silence. Ultimately, these poems not only reconstruct an important historical event, but they also put pressure on the archive, asking us to question not only what is remembered, but how history is remembered—and who is forgotten from it. More/less