Orlando White is one of the most interesting Native American poets currently producing work, and David Reyes is a upcoming Chicano poet from El Paso. Together, these captivating authors will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 5th on the NMSU campus, in the Health and Social Services Building auditorium, Rm. 101.
Orlando White is the author of two books of poetry, Bone Light and LETTERRS. He is originally from Tółikan, Arizona, and he is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. His work has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Omnidawn, and Poetry. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency and Bread Loaf John Ciardi Fellowship. He teaches at Diné College and in thelow-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
In his review of White’s most recent book, Forest Gander writes that it “cuts across the roots of what we call American culture when, for instance, he ask ‘how does a letter become another when its origin is lost?’ LETTERRS is his complex ars poetica, a book of love poems to the grapheme and ‘its outbreak of silence.’”
David Reyes is an MFA candidate in poetry at NMSU. He is currently working on his first book of poetry titled Glitch Switching, in which explores contemporary life and the effects of consumerism along the U.S.-Mexico border. His work has appeared in Rio Grande Review and Chrysalis.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the reading. The reading is presented by La Sociedad para las Artes and the NMSU English Department.
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