Monacan poet Karenne Wood's Reading on Wednesday!

What: Poetry Reading

When: November 4, 2009

Time: 4:30

Place: Northen Auditorium (Leyburn Library)

Who: Open to the public

KARENNE WOOD is the author of Markings on Earth, which won the North American Native Authors Award for Poetry. She holds an MFA in poetry from George Mason University and is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, where she served on the Monacan Tribal Council for 12 years. She directs the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Virginia, working to revitalize indigenous languages and cultural practices. She was previously the Repatriation Director for the Association on American Indian Affairs, coordinating the return of sacred objects to Native communities. She has worked at the National Museum of the American Indian as a researcher, and directed a tribal history project with the Monacan Nation for six years. Recently, Wood edited The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, a guidebook now in its third edition.

We've read some of Wood's elegies for class this week. Read more at her NativeWiki: http://www.nativewiki.org/Karenne_Wood