Indigenous Poets Prize Reading

Join us in celebrating the inaugural award recipients of Hayden's Ferry Review's Indigenous Poets Prize!

Youth (National): “I Am From,…” by Acacia Armstrong

Youth (Arizona): “Brown” by Raine Huelskamp and “The House of Forgotten Memories” by Denzhone Burdette

Adult (National): “i saw my life without you and it was beautiful” by Emily Clarke and “When Her Body Is A Battleground” by Kimberly Blaeser

Adult (Arizona): “Deer Tracks” by Ramona Gutierrez and “Land is a Body is a Religion⇰” by Chris Hoshnic

This event will feature our award recipients and our contest judge, renowned poet and Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands director, Natalie Diaz. Register for this virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/nhadwfem

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About the Indigenous Poets Prize
The Indigenous Poets Prize is a collaboration with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (CIB), Red Ink Journal, Thousand Languages Project and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Between May 1-June 10, we accepted poetry submissions in youth and adult categories, Arizona-based and nationally-based.

About Hayden's Ferry Review
Founded in 1986, "Hayden's Ferry Review" is a semi-annual, international literary journal edited by the MFA students at Arizona State University. HFR looks for well-crafted work that takes risks, challenges readers, and engages us emotionally and artistically. In addition to two yearly print issues, HFR publishes online-exclusive web content on The Dock and on the HFR  blog, including web issues, interviews, book reviews and more.

About Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands
The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands is an Indigenous space at ASU where we constellate stories, knowledges, and language across our many borderlands through strategic and exploratory modes of research, conversation and performance. Essential to our understanding of Indigineity is a kinship with the land, a connection that moves beyond “where we are” or “how we got here” and represents an evolving awareness and practice of relationality with land, water, and other human and non-human life. The imaginations shaped in this desert and in these bordered lands are capable of influencing and catalyzing the futures we believe we deserve.

About Thousand Languages Project
Thousand Languages features annual translations of Hayden's Ferry Review and hosts virtual, community-outreach activities to celebrate translation and the voice of our local and global communities. This project is a Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing initiative.

About RED INK Initiative
The RED INK Initiative is an interrelated set of campus, regional, national and international projects, including an international journal, to achieve its mission and goals in collaboration with Indigenous communities.

About Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Established in 2003 with a historic gift from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University is a non-academic university center dedicated to offering talks, readings, classes, workshops and other literary events and programs for the larger community.