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Rattling a Definition from Terms of Experience
with Layli Long Soldier
Sunday, May 19, 11am-1pm
$35 / $30 members includes a ticket to the reading at 2pm
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Rattling a Definition from Terms of Experience with Layli Long Soldier
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 This workshop will offer a close examination of a single word, which can yield a poem's life. Participants will choose a word from a heritage language, trade/discipline or regional vernacular to particularize and explore, then translate this term through poetic form. In translating, we will consider concrete imagery of the term, the sound and the gap (space) in meaning to push the definition from the literal into the poetic. We will search for what lies latent in a word, in its potential, available through our personal dictionaries of experience and imagination. Readings will include poems by Orlando White, Layli Long Soldier, Harryette Mullen, Ching-In Chen, Joan Kane, and Edmond Jabes.
Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently pursuing her MFA at Bard College. Her poems have appeared in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the anthology Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas and a forthcoming issue of Kenyon Review Online. She also exhibits visual works, with her most recent installation at the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation, SD. She resides in Tsaile, AZ on the Navajo Nation and is an adjunct faculty member at Diné College. Her first chapbook of poetry is titled, Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2010).
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