ARC Fellow

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas

April 3, 2025
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas Thursday, April 3, 2025 5-6:30pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas. Each poet will read for 15 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.

Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay

November 17, 2021
Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay: Black Nature, Poetry, and Coexistence in conversation with Aya de León and Maurya Kerr Wednesday, November 17th 2021 5:00 – 6:30pm PST

Watch the recording here!

Celebrating Cave Canem

October 20, 2021
Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady with Morgan Parker & Cameron Awkward-Rich in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Vincente Perez Wednesday, October 20th 2021 5:00 – 6:30pm PST Watch the recording here!

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Marisa Lin and Cianga

April 17, 2024
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Marisa Lin and Cianga Wednesday, April 17, 2024 5pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the first chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Marisa Lin and Cianga. Each poet will read for 20 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.

Mother Language Day

February 21, 2024
Mother Language Day Celebration Wed Feb 21, 2024
10 – 11am
Hearst Field Annex D23

Claudia Iron Hawk

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Claudia Iron Hawk was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Claudia Iron Hawk / Thaopi Waste Win (she/her) is a D/Lakota linguist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) in South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s in Anthropology & Native American and Indigenous studies from UMN and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. She is an Indigenous language revitalization advocate who speaks and works with her heritage language D/Lakotiya.

Sierra Edd

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Sierra Edd was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Sierra Edd (she / her) is a Diné writer and artist who grew up in Durango, Colorado. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people. She is currently an Ethnic Studies doctoral student and resides in Ohlone Territory. Her research examines the political significance of listening, creating, and connecting through Indigenous music across various U.S. contexts. Recently, she has been collaborating and working on zine projects...

Talia Dixon

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Talia Dixon was the 2023-2024 ARC Indigenous Poetics Lab Fellow.

Talia Dixon (she / her) is an enrolled member of the Pauma Band of Luiseños (Payómkawichum) in San Diego County. She grew up in Hemet California and graduated with her B.F.A. in modern dance from the University of Utah in 2021. She is a dancer, artist, and currently a Ph.D. student in Performance Studies on Ohlone land at UC Berkeley.

Sa Whitley

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sa Whitley was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – they were chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Sa Whitley (they/them/theirs) is a black queer poet and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Transformation at Arizona State University. They received their Ph.D. in Gender Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Whitley has received poetry fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference (‘22), Cave Canem, and the...

Angel Sobotta

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Angel Sobotta was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Angel Sobotta is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe. She has worked for the Nez Perce Language since 1998, serving as a coordinator and teaching language at Lapwai schools, the mamayá’snim hitéemenwees – Children’s Learning place, Kamiah and Clearwater Valley schools, Northwest Indian College, Lewis-Clark State College, the University of Idaho, and Washington State University. Sobotta’s...