Voicing the Archives
Through archival sources, familial stories, and cultural legacies, these poets examine how the past informs the present. By giving voice to forgotten or hidden histories, panelists reveal the deep intersections of place, heritage, and personal narrative in contemporary poetry.
| Where: | Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Poetry |
| Moderator: | Susan Briante |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith |
Panelists
Denise LowDenise 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....
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Gabriel PalaciosGabriel Palacios was born in Tucson, Arizona and earned an MFA from the University of Arizona, where he was the recipient of the Minnie Torrance Award for Poetry, selected by giovanni singleton. He works as a college writing instructor and serves as a contributing editor for Diagram....
Books:
House of Grace, House of Blood
Poems
Denise Low
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
October 2024
ISBN 9780816553587
128 pages
Buy nowAn 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
A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign
Gabriel Palacios
Poetry
Fonograf Editions
March 2024
ISBN 9798987589045
104 pages
Buy nowIn A TEN PESO BURIAL FOR WHICH TRUTH I SIGN, debut poet Gabriel Palacios slipstreams through a hauntological, historicized Southwest, to make sense out of the life inherited.
Episodes of modern decay, violence and indignity co-mingle with the colonial horrors sometimes visited upon, and often committed by the ancestors of the author, who traveled from Basque Spain to the Southwestern border region in the Eighteenth-century. These are poems that reckon with complicity: historic and on the streets of South Tucson, Arizona in the present. This collection represents a prism through which we assess time, place, and the specters of one’s own conduct and circumstances. More/less
