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Midwest Poets Series: Ray Young Bear
Author: Ray Young Bear has performed his song-poems of contemporary and traditional Meskwaki culture, from the Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. "I am not exaggerating," writes Sherman Alexie, "when I say that Ray Young Bear is the best poet in Indian Country." Young Bear's books include The Rock Island Hunting Club (poems, U. of Iowa Press, 2001), Remnants Of The First Earth (fiction, Grove, 1996), Black Eagle Child (fiction, Iowa, 1992), Winter Of The Salamander (poems, Harper & Row, 1980) and others. He began writing poetry as a teenager with the Upward Bound program, writing in his native Meskwaki and translating into English. His poems retain the heightened formal style of Meskwaki oratory, and Young Bear often includes hand-drum performance. He has served as visiting artist for elementary and high schools and has taughter at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M.
The Midwest Poets Series, sponsored by The Center for Arts & Letters and The College Of Arts and Sciences at Rockhurst University, has been designed to enhance the literary and intellectual lives of Rockhurst University, its neighbors in Kansas City and the surrounding region.
Where: Rockhurst University, Sedgwick Hall, Mabee Theater
When: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM. A 6:00 PM Reception precedes this event.
Admission: $3.00 at the door.
Visit The Center For Arts And Letters online for more information.
Writers' books are available for purchase at events from Rainy Day Books.
- Street:
- Rockhurst University, Sedgwick Hall, Mabee Theater
- Additional:
- On the campus of Rockhurst University
- City:
- Kansas City ,
- Province:
- Missouri
- Postal Code:
- 64110
- Country:
- United States
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