Sonic Constellations
From arid deserts to storm-laden coastlines, each author delves into the musicality of language and the powerful role of landscape in poetry. Panelists will discuss how natural imagery and poetic techniques connect inner experience with the external world.
| Where: | Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Poetry |
| Moderator: | Cameron Quan |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith |
Panelists
Amber McCraryAmber McCrary is of the Kin Łichíí’nii clan, born for the Naakaii Dine’é clan. Her maternal grandfather is the Áshįįhí clan and her paternal grandfather is the Ta’neeszahnii clan....
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Saretta MorganSaretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. Her work engages the ecologies and forms of intimacy that develop in the wake of United States militarization. She is author of the chapbooks "Feeling Upon Arrival" and "room for a counter interior....
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Leo RomeroBorn in 1950 in Chacón, New Mexico, poet Leo Romero is considered a foundational figure of Latino letters. He holds an MA in English from New Mexico State University. Since 1988, he has been a bookseller in Santa Fe, New Mexico....
Books:
Alt-Nature
Saretta Morgan
Poetry
Coffee House Press
January 2024
ISBN 9781566896979
160 pages
Buy nowAlt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest.
These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love. More/less
Blue Corn Tongue
Poems in the Mouth of the Desert
Amber McCrary
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
January 2025
ISBN 9780816554300
114 pages
Buy nowBlue Corn Tongue is a like mixtape from a thirty-something Diné punk girl. It offers poetry about love, friendship, environmental destruction, and language loss.
Trees Dream of Water
Selected and New Poems
Leo Romero
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
February 2025
ISBN 9780816554225
328 pages
Buy nowIn Trees Dream of Water Leo Romero offers up ancestral history and personal journeys through the landscapes of northern New Mexico.
The poetry weaves together a lyrical exploration of identity, memory, and the natural world, inviting readers on a captivating journey of self-discovery that spans Romero’s career. More/less
