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Layli Long Soldier
June 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The University of Tulsa and Society for Textual Scholarship welcome Layli Long Soldier for a free, public talk at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities.
Long Soldier will give an artist talk and reading, followed by a book signing. Magic City Books will be on site selling copies of her book WHEREAS.
Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She is a mentor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
They keynote address kicks off the 2024 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, which explores the textuality of pressure. You can learn more about the conference by visiting the STS website: https://textualsociety.org/
