Join City Tech student writers and the poet Layli Long Soldier to share ideas and creative work.Thursday, March 24, 4:30 pm on ZOOM.
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Read about the featured guest below and consider submitting work to the creative writing contest before the March 4 deadline. Information about the contest is here: LAF 2022 Literary Arts Festival Creative Writing Contest: Deadline March 4
LAYLI LONG SOLDIER
Biography
Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist and activist. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), winner of the National Books Critics Circle award and a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also won the National Artist Fellowship from the Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Whiting Writerâs Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. In 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Poems
National Poetry Foundation:Â
Academy of American Poets:
Video Readings/Discussons
Whiting Foundation:
Reading of Whereas and Discussion on the Whiting Foundation:
Interview: The Freedom of Real Apologies
An interview on Krista Tippetâs On Being. In this show, available as an interview transcript or a podcast, Layli Long Soldier discusses pieces from her book WHEREAS written in response to the 2009 congressional resolution of apology to Native Americans. Long Soldier states:
âFirst of all what motivated me to even respond to the apology was the delivery. So thatâs the heart of it â or, I should say, the non-delivery of the apology.â
The interview also discusses how the poet integrated personal stories of apology, her search for justice, and the importance of being heard.