Can poetry heal our personal and collective wounds? Confronting both historical and present forms of violence — colonialism, U.S. border policy, racism and more — each of these poets explores language as an urgent response to pain.
| Where: | Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Poetry |
| Moderator: | Aria Pahari |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith |
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....
Octavio Quintanilla, a semifinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 2024, will be making his first apparance at the Tucson Festival of Books. His longlisted collection was "The Book of Wounded Sparrow....
Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections including "Bluff," "Homie" and "Don’t Call Us Dead." Danez was won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and has been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award....
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