Sun, Sep 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Generational IAIA: An Alum and Two Rising Poets
Join Institute of American Indian Arts alum and poet James Thomas Stevens and two rising student poets, Carmen Wiley and Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 15, 2024, 4:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Alum James Thomas Stevens, Aronhió:ta’s (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born in Niagara Falls, New York. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Brown University’s graduate C.W. program. Stevens has authored eight books of poetry, including, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, A Bridge Dead in the Water, The Mutual Life, Bulle/Chimere, DisOrient, and The Golden Book, (SplitLevel Texts). He is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient and Full Professor in IAIA’s undergraduate Creative Writing Program. He lives in Cañoncito, New Mexico.
Student Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake is from the Giduwa and Mvskoke nations in Oklahoma. She is the 2024 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award winner for poetry and a 2023 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow. She is in her final year at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and plans to pursue an MFA post-graduation.
Student Carmen Wiley is a Mvskoke (Creek) writer, designer, and artist from southeastern Oklahoma. Influenced by the natural landscape, family stories, and lived experiences, her writing reflects the intimacy felt growing up in a small town. Carmen currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Business Administration Certificate from the Institute of American Indian Arts.