Layli Long Soldier MFA ’14: Presentation and Reading

Layli Long Soldier MFA ’14 will give a reading and presentation that reflects upon her essay, “Now You Will Listen,” which is included in the 2023 Language and Thinking Anthology. Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer's Award in 2016. Layli Long Soldier is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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For more information, call 845-768-7097, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Auditorium

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