This FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010!
7 PM
Caffe Tazza – 122 Kit Carson Road

dg nanouk Okpik is an Alaskan native, Inupiat – Inuit from Anchorage, currently living in Santa Fe.  She will present a layered introduction to the Inuit spirit world through her poetry, and will read from “For-the-Spirits-Who-are-Coming-Around-the-Bend” as featured in the Academy of American Poets, in an introduction by Arthur Sze of her work.   She received her BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts.  While at IAIA, she received – among other awards – the Truman Capote Scholarship and a fellowship to the Centrum/Port Townsend Writer’s Conference.  Okpik recently received her MFA at Stonecast, USM, So. Portland , ME in January, 2010.

Cathy Strisik has been active in the Taos writing community for 27 years as a poet, teacher and youth mentor.  Numerous publications include The Cafe Review, Northwest Review, Canteen, Comstock Review, Studio, and she has been awarded numerous poetry awards.  Strisik will be reading from her recently published first book, Thousand-Cricket Song, reflective of her journey in Cambodia, observant of the flow of motherhood, grief, and the Mekong River, and her sense of place in the country of Cambodia.

$8 and &6/members/seniors/students