Save the Date: Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe

Sept 29th-30th

Mark your calendars for a special series of events with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Laura Tohe, sponsored by the Milwaukee Native American Literary Cooperative (MNALC).

Code Talker Stories: A Conversation with Laura Tohe, Navajo Nation Poet Laureate
Thursday, September 29th @ 12:00pm in Union 191

Poetry Reading: Laura Tohe
Thursday, September 29th @ 7:00pm hosted by Woodland Pattern Book Center

Craft Talk w/ Laura Tohe
Friday, September 30th @ 11:00am in Greene Hall

Laura Tohe is a scholar and poet. She is the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and a professor of English at Arizona State University. She has published numerous poems, stories, essays, and interviews, including the 2001 essay, “There Is No Word for Feminism in My Language.” Her book publications include, Code Talker Stories (2012), Tseyi, Deep in the Rock (2005)and a co-edited collection with Heid Erdrich, Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (2002).

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Sukanya Banerjee, Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award

Dylan Barth (Learning Technology Center and English Ph.D.), UWM Academic Staff Outstanding Performance and Service Award

Meg Noodin Office of Research / UWM Foundation Research Award

Casey O’Brien (Women’s and Gender Studies and English Ph.D.), UWM Academic Staff Outstanding Teaching Award

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