An Evening with Contemporary Native American Poets
AN EVENING WITH CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN POETS
Featuring Manny Loley, Crisosto Apache & Adrienne Crezo
$8 General Admission, $5 Museum Members
The greater Denver metro area is home to many talented Native American poets. Hear them share their work in an intimate evening of spoken word.
Manny Loley is a Diné storyteller from Tsétah Tó Ák’olí in New Mexico. He is a current Ph.D. candidate in English and literary arts at the University of Denver. Loley is director of the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute. His work has found homes in Poetry Magazine, the Arkansas International, the Massachusetts Review, and the Diné Reader: an Anthology of Navajo Literature, among others. His writing has been thrice nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Loley is at work on a novel titled They Collect Rain in Their Palms, and a collection of poems in Diné bizaad.
Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico (US), on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, currently lives in the Denver metro area in Colorado, with their spouse. They are Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the ‘Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House Clan) and are Assistant Professor of English at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They hold an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Crisosto’s debut collection is GENESIS (Lost Alphabet). Crisosto’s second forthcoming collection is Ghostword out by Gnashing Teeth Publication mid-2022. Some of the poems in this collection have appeared in The Rumpus, Loch Raven Review, the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY Magazine, ANMLY Magazine, Digging Through The Fat, McGraw Hill Publishing, and most recently When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (WW Norton), edited by Joy Harjo, et. al. They continue advocacy work for the Native American LGBTQ / ‘two-spirit’ identity. Crisosto has book reviews for the Native American Anthology Visit Tee-Pee Town (Coffee House Press 1999), published in the Poetry Project publication, Issue 175, June 1999. Their a current poetry reader for The Offing Magazine.
Adrienne Crezo (she/her) is an editor, Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, and Tin House poetry scholar of Comanche descent. She serves as an editor at Daily Kos, a political activism and information organization; editor-in-chief of the newly relaunched Sledgehammer Lit (Jan. 2023); associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes; and a poetry reader at Okay Donkey and Kissing Dynamite. Her work was recently nominated for Best of the Net (poetry) and the Pushcart Prize (fiction), and shortlisted for the Denver Quarterly Broadside Contest and the Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize. She is originally from Lawton, Oklahoma, and lives in Aurora, Colorado.
$8 General Admission / $5 Museum Members
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