Thursday, 7 pm, Native American Poet Susan Deer Cloud, Clark Lounge, Campus Center

02/27/11

Susan Deer Cloud is a Métis Catskill Native of Mohawk/Blackfoot/Seneca lineage. She has received various awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Literature Grant, First Prize in Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition (twice), Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Award, and Native American Wordcraft Circle Editor’s Award for multicultural anthology Confluence. She has also edited the Native anthology I Was Indian (Before Being Indian Was Cool) and the 2008 Spring Issue of Yellow Medicine Review, a Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought (she is now an adviser to Yellow Medicine). She will read from her poetry collection, "Braiding Starlight"  Split Oak Press, 2010.

 Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Brooke Hansen, Anthropology, 274-1735 or kbhansen@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

This event is co-sponsored by Anthropology, Writing, and The Diversity Awareness Committee.

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