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Legacies: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove, and Joy Harjo with Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Natalie Diaz

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Beus Center for Law and Society Rm. 140, Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix, 111 E Taylor St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
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LEGACIES: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove, and Joy Harjo
Three legends come together to discuss their paths through the American literary landscape. Hosted by Natalie Diaz.

Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 at 1:30 pm
Great Hall, Beus Center for Law and Society Rm. 140
Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix
111 E Taylor St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

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Please note that this is a ticketed event. In order to ensure fair and equitable access, tickets will become available on Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at 12 pm with a limited waitlist. There will be no walk-ins for this event. All tickets are free. Please see the eventbrite page for more details at http://legacies-asu.eventbrite.com.
 
Legacies is presented by archiTEXTS and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing with support from the Labriola National American Indian Data Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

 

About the Author

Photograph of Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class.

Photograph of Rita Dove

Former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar as one of the one hundred top high school graduates in the nation that year, she received her MFA in 1977 from the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, where she and her classmates Sandra Cisneros and Joy Harjo were the only non-white students at the time. From 1981 to 1989 she taught creative writing at Arizona State University - the final two years as the first and only African-American full professor in ASU's English Department.

Photograph of Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo’s eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry; a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship.

Picture of Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University, and her first poetry collection is When My Brother Was an Aztec.

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