the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Dec
15
Simon J. Ortiz
Acknowledging Self: Land, Culture, Community ala Stories, Poetry, and Indigenous Oral Tradition
6:30 pm | Rose Auditorium
By an introductory statement about Acoma Indigenous oral tradition and identity of self and an articulation of the relationship between oral tradition and identity, Simon Ortiz will site himself within the present moment of his present moment of his seminar presentation at Cooper Union. With that he will present a selection of non-fiction and fiction stories, poems, and other writings authored by him that foster and illustrate his insistence that for him oral tradition---and its visual-scripted component writing---and identity are part and parcel of each other as his personal-social voice. After a presentation of 45 minutes, the floor will be opened to questions: dialogue, conversations, interactivity.
About Simon J. Ortiz
Simon Ortiz is a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, and a poet. A poet who sometimes sings. And a professor of Indigenous literature. He is of Acoma Pueblo heritage having grown up within the Indigenous community and culture of the Acoma people in New Mexico. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and poetry, including Men on the Moon, Speaking for the Generations, Howbah Indians, Earth Power Coming, A Good Journey, Going for the Rain, Woven Stone, from San Creek, After and Before the Lightning, The Good Rainbow Road, The People Shall Continue, and other books. As a professor of Indigenous Literature at Arizona State University, he focuses on Indigenous liberation and decolonization. He is a father of three children and a grandfather of eight.