Artist Talk: Layli Long Soldier
November 7, 5:30-6:30 PM, FREE (please register for your free ticket)

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Join Layli Long Soldier as she speaks about her process of creating poetry from visual works and the inspiration behind the words. Learn about the evolution and revision process of the poetry she created for the film Lakota Nation vs. United States, titled 13Xs.

Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in  POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She is a mentor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Join us for her Creative Writing Workshop in collaboration with UofL Creative Writing Program on November 8, from 10 AM to 12 PM.

Her poetry can be found on the Native American Gallery entrance wall.

Photo by Mindy Best