Initiatives
Poetry Roundtable
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Heid E. Erdrich
Emilio del Valle Escalante
Inés Hernández-Avila
12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana
Event Description
Professor del Valle Escalante will present An Indigenous Critic's Perspective: Contemporary Maya Poetry after the Civil War in Guatemala
Sponsored by: American Indian Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, George A. Miller Endowment, Spurlock Museum
Heid E. Erdrich
(Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway) Poet and author of four collections including National Monuments (Michigan State University Press, 2008) and publisher, Wiigwaas Press (Minneapolis)
Emilio del Valle Escalante
Assistant Professor of Spanish (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Inés Hernández-Avila
(Nez Perce/Tejana) Professor of Native American Studies and Director, Chicana/Latina Research Center (University of California at Davis) and poet