Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Lightening the Load for Future Generations
5.26.23 – Michelle Otero was the City of Albuquerque’s poet laureate from 2018 through 2020. This year, FlowerSong Press published her prose book, Vessels: A Memoir of Borders. In conversation with Our Land’s Laura Paskus, Otero talks about the challenges and rewards of writing about family, trauma and history. Correspondent: Laura Paskus Guest: Michelle Otero,…
Read MorePoet Laureate Joy Harjo Reading: First Morning (For Shan)
November 27, 2020 – Joy Harjo is the nation’s first ever native American Poet Laureate. And just this month, she was appointed to a third term beginning of September 2021. Harjo is only the second poet to be honored with a third term. In this clip, she talks about the story behind her poem “The…
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