BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T163551 CREATED:20191211T070900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T070900Z UID:249465-1580497200-1580497200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Spotlight Poetry: Sherwin Bitsui with Elee Kraljii Gardiner DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of boundaries and borderlands\, distance and dissonance with acclaimed Diné poet Sherwin Bitsui\, author of Dissolve (Copper Canyon\, 2018) and Canadian writer Elee Kraljii Gardiner\, author of Trauma Head (Anvil Press\, 2018). \nAbout the Readers\n\nSherwin Bitsui is the author of three collections of poetry\, Dissolve\, Flood Song\, and Shapeshift. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award\, an American Book Award\, and the PEN Book Award. His poems have appeared in Narrative\, Black Renaissance Noir\, American Poet\, the Iowa Review\, LIT\, and elsewhere. He is Diné of the Todí­ch’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan)\, born for the Tlizí­laaní­ (Many Goats Clan)\, and has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the Native Arts & Culture Foundation. \n\nElee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of Trauma Head\, winner of the Fred Cogswell Poetry Prize; and serpentine loop. She has also edited two anthologies\, Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Elee is the founding director of Thursdays Writing Collective\, which supported emerging writers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She has performed her poetry at festivals across North America\, including the Vancouver Writers Fest\, the Railroad Reading Series\, and the Annual Creative Writing Conference at the University of Chiang Mai. Originally from Boston\, Elee now lives with her family in Vancouver on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish\, Tsleil-Waututh\, and Musqueam peoples. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/spotlight-poetry-sherwin-bitsui-with-elee-kraljii-gardiner/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR