Allison Adelle Hedge Coke with John-Carlos Perea and Jimmy Biala
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 4:00 pm
Renowned poet, editor and Native American activist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke reads from her work, accompanied by live music from American Indian Studies Assistant Professor John-Carlos Perea and his frequent collaborator, drummer/percussionist Jimmy Biala. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
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Sponsor:
The Poetry Center
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Phone:
415-338-2227
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Hedge Coke’s books include the poetry collections Dog Road Woman—an American Book Award winner—and Off-Season City Pipe, the memoir Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer and the verse-play Blood Run. She has edited eight additional collections, including: Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies and Effigies II. Hedge Coke has held two endowed chairs and won several literary and arts grants. She has won fellowships and residencies with the Lannan Foundation, Weymouth Center for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Hawthornden Castle, MacDowell Colony and Great Plains Center. Hedge Coke came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters and working in factories.