Eyeing the Margins:
Red Indian Road West and Foglifter Press.
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | The Legionnaire Saloon
Event Description
Eyeing the Margins presents work from two very disparate, yet strangely akin publications. Both consider the experiences of marginalized communities through poetry and prose. Come celebrate the transgressive!
Co-Curator: Red Indian Road West |
Co-Curator: Foglifter Press |
Containing the work of 31 poets from 29 tribes, Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California is the first poetry anthology to include the work of both poets from California tribes and poets from tribes nationwide who now live in California. Three contributors will read at Beast Crawl,
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Foglifter is a queer journal and press, but more than that. We publish powerful writing, intersectional writing, that queers our perspectives; writing that explores the sometimes abject, sometimes shameful, but always honest and revelatory experience.
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Red Indian Road West Readers |
Foglifter Press Readers |
Nanette Bradley Deetz
Nanette Bradley Deetz (Dakota, Cherokee, and German descent) has poetry in numerous anthologies. A journalist for Indian Country Todayand Alameda Journal, she holds a B.A. and M.A. from UCLA.
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Natasha Dennerstein
Natasha has had poetry published in Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Shenandoah, Bloom, Transfer, Red Light Lit and several anthologies. Her collection “Anatomize” is published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco.
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Dave Holt
Dave Holt is Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, his mother a great-granddaughter of Manitoulin Island royalty. He graduated from SFSU’s Creative Writing program and won a Literary/Cultural Arts Award for Voyages to Ancestral Islands.
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Genine Lentine
Genine Lentine is the author of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model, Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes, and co-author with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden. Recent work appears in Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Conversations at the Wartime Café, Ninth Letter, Shambhala Sun, and Best Buddhist Writing.
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Kim Shuck
Kim Shuck (Tsalagi/Sauk/Fox and Polish) won the Diane Decorah Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas in 2005. Her latest book is Clouds Running In.
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Vernon Keeve III
Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry, Conversations with a Southern Migrant, from Nomadic Press, in spring 2016.
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