Visiting Writers
Kevin Canty
Contemporary Fiction
Thursday, September 24, 2009
7:30pm
Place Kimbrough 101
Kevin Canty's sixth book, a collection of stories called Where the Money Went, will come out from Nan A. Talese / Knopf in July, 2009. He is also the author of two previous collections of short stories (Honeymoon and A Stranger In This World) and three novels (Nine Below Zero, Into the Great Wide Open, and Winslow in Love). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Tin House, GQ, Glimmer Train, Story, the New England Review and elsewhere; essays and
articles in Vogue, Details, the New York Times and the Oxford American, among many others. His work has been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian and English. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona, he currently lives and writes in Missoula, Montana.
Kate Greenstreet
Poetry
Monday, October 12, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: CUE 203
Kate Greenstreet’s second book, The Last 4 Things, is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her first, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Her new work is in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, Court Green, VOLT, Fence, and the Denver Quarterly.
Margo Tamez
Poetry
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: CUE 203
Margo Tamez (Nde'--Lipan Apache) is an award-winning Indigenous human rights activist, poet, scholar and 
the Co-Founder of the Lipan Apache Women Defense, an Indigenous Peoples' Organization. Her creative work is in direct conversation with, and addresses, Nde' Peoples' experiences in colonization and their tensions and struggles against oppression as they move assertively toward autonomy from the United States and Mexico. Her poetry interrogates the micro and macro perspectives of Indigenous women in local and global struggles for personhood and human identification. This critical-creative voice challenges and investigates two of the fundamental 'legal' rationales for conquest and colonization of Nde' territories--'savagery' and 'female inferiority.' Tamez' latest creative publication, RAVEN EYE (Arizona, 2007) critically scours the contradictions and ironies in current 'Native' and 'American' justice movements, offering a new generation the lens on globalization from Indigenous women's and children's views. A tense and edgy trip through the lives of a mother and her two children living on and off a reservation and under the grip of militarization along the U.S.-Mexico International Border--RAVEN EYE is a contemporary warning of U.S.-style Low Intensity Conflict come home. Zone of war, National Guard soldiering, Minute-Men, Neo-KKK, Conquistadores, environmental justice warriors, extra-legal killing, Indigenous migrant workers, environmental destruction, cow-town thrift stores, desert monsoons, tourist-traffick, and the national borders which Indigenous women traverse and subvert as an everyday form of resistance--are the threads Tamez weaves to reveal resurgent, trans-national Indigenous movements critiquing states and violence-- are here to stay.
Sarah Vap
Poetry
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Kimbrough 101
Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.