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Joan Naviyuk Kane: Bringing An Alaskan Perspective To Teaching In Santa Fe

Joan Kane

November 23, 2018 – Joan Kane is an Alaska Native poet who grew up in Anchorage with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Kane is the author of a number of collections of poetry. Her lyric poems are rooted in her Arctic homeland.…

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Jimmy Santiago Baca: Words Have the Power to Change the World 

Jimmy Santiago Baca

April 27, 2018 – Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico of Apache and Chicano descent in 1952. Abandoned as child, he was in an orphanage and was in and out of trouble as a teenager before eventually being incarcerated in the brutal and violent Arizona State Prison for five years. That was where…

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