Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik

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October 5, 2023

Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik

Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life

October 5, 2023

4 - 5:15 p.m.

Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Poet dg nanouk okpik will give a public Craft Talk, Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life, at 4pm at the Arts Research Center. Okpik will discuss the obstacles to and liberations of literacy and poetry in an intersectional Native framework. Her talk asks how Malcolm X, poetic movements such as Cave Canem, and the structures and temporality of Native languages, can inform our sense of what it means to belong in America today.

This event follows her 12-1pm Lunch Poems Reading in Morrison Library, both events are free & open to the public.

dg nanouk okpik was born in Anchorage, where she spent much of her life, and her family is from Barrow, Alaska. okpik is Inupiaq, Inuit. She received an AFA in liberal arts / liberal studies from Salish Kootenai College, earned both an AFA and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.

okpik is the author of Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press, 2012), which won the American Book Award and the May Sarton Award. okpik was also the recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship. okpik is a Lannan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe.

Speaker: dg nanouk okpik, Artist
Presented collaboratively by the Arts Research Center and the English Dept, with support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Craft talk with dg okpik: Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life

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