Flood Song

Speaker:

Sherwin Bitsui

29 Mar 2013

4:00 PM

Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

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Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two books of poetry, Shapeshift and Flood Song, a recipient of a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and an American Book Award. Originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, he is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan). His work explores the tensions between the worlds of nature and man as well as the challenge Native Americans face in reconciling an inherited history of lore and spirit with a postmodern civilization. Bitsui's many honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award. The 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water

Sherwin Bitsui's poems have been published in [i]Narrative, Black Renaissance Noir, American Poet, The Iowa Review, LIT,[/i] and elsewhere. They were also anthologized in [i]Between Water & Song, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.[/i] He holds a BA from University of Arizona and an AFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. [url=http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/mfa/visiting-writers-series/9th-annual-symposium-on-wildness-wilderness-the/]The Future of Water[/url] is a series of invited lectures, creative readings, interdisciplinary panel discussions and a documentary film about the secret life and turbulent future of the world’s fresh and salt water supplies.