Church Meeting | Pexels by Isaac Taylor
Church Meeting | Pexels by Isaac Taylor
The Importance of Your Voice: A Conversation with Joy Harjo and Living Nations, Living Words poets
February 2, 2023 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: GTA 130 Greenhaw Technical Arts Center (GTA) on the Great Basin College Elko Campus.
Join former three time Poet Laureate Joy Harjo with poets Henry Real Bird, M.L. Smoker, and nila northsun from Harjo’s Living Nations, Living Words project, in an intimate, lively conversation and listen to some wonderful poetry by these outstanding contemporary Native poets from across the nation.
The Living Nations, Living Words project aims to show, through poetry, that Native people and poets have vital and unequivocal roots in the United States, and that poetry is an essential way to communicate one's own story and connection to land and communities of both origin and choice.
Program will run for an hour followed by a 30 minute reception with light refreshments.
Free and open to all.
For more infoC contact: Gail Rappa, GBC Humanities Center Coordinator. gail.rappa@gbcnv.edu, (775) 327-2146
Location: Greenhaw Technical Arts 130 (GTA)
Event type: Meeting
Event Name: Joy Harjo at GBC!
Organization: GBC
Event Locator: 022-AAHBTS
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