Lannan Poets in Residence Reading Saturday
Lannan Poets in Residence Sherwin Bitsui & Matthew Shenoda will be reading from recent work at the Marfa Book Company this Saturday at 7:00pm. You can sample Shenoda's poetry at his website here, and Bitsui's personal site has links to his poetry and even a blog.
Bios from the Lannan website:
Sherwin Bitsui is Dine of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’izilani (Many Goats Clan). He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, and more recently, the 2002 University of Arizona Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Award. His first book, Shapeshift, is available from the University of Arizona Press. Originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Matthew Shenoda is a Coptic poet, educator, and activist devoted to using art for social change and to build community amongst people of color. His poems and writings have appeared widely and he is a regular contributor to Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Pacifica radio. He is currently editing To This Revolution We Will Rise: A Global Anthology of Poetry forthcoming from Third World Press, and his debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else, is available from Coffee House Press. He is currently a faculty member in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and lives in South Berkeley, California.
Bios from the Lannan website:
Sherwin Bitsui is Dine of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’izilani (Many Goats Clan). He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, and more recently, the 2002 University of Arizona Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Award. His first book, Shapeshift, is available from the University of Arizona Press. Originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Matthew Shenoda is a Coptic poet, educator, and activist devoted to using art for social change and to build community amongst people of color. His poems and writings have appeared widely and he is a regular contributor to Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Pacifica radio. He is currently editing To This Revolution We Will Rise: A Global Anthology of Poetry forthcoming from Third World Press, and his debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else, is available from Coffee House Press. He is currently a faculty member in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and lives in South Berkeley, California.
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