8th Annual Rudolfo & Patricia Anaya Lecture on Literature of the SW, featuring Nora Naranjo Morse
On October 26th, 2017, the English Department will host the 8th Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, with artist and poet Nora Naranjo Morse, of Santa Clara Pueblo, as our featured speaker.
Naranjo Morse will speak at 7 p.m. in the West Wing and Willard Room of Zimmerman Library with a reception to follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Nora Naranjo Morse is an internationally known sculptor, poet, filmmaker, and producer of films on Pueblo life and culture. Naranjo Morse's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Heard Museum, the Smithsonian, and at the National Museum of the American Indian, where her hand-built sculpture piece, Always Becoming, was selected from more than 55 entries submitted by Native artists as the winner of an outdoor sculpture competition in 2005. Naranjo Morse is the author of the poetry collection Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay (1992), which combines poems with photographs of her clay figures. Nora Morse Naranjo continues to explore issues of environment, culture and the social practice of making art with community. For more information on her work, her website is http://noranaranjomorse.squarespace.com
The UNM English Department established the annual lecture series on the literature of the Southwest in 2010 through a gift from the renowned fiction writer Rudolfo Anaya and his late wife Patricia Anaya. A founder of UNM’s distinguished Creative Writing Program, Rudolfo Anaya is also an Emeritus Professor of English at UNM. His papers are held at UNM’s Center for Southwest Research.
The annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest features foundational figures in southwestern literature, such as Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz (2010), Las Cruces writer and playwright Denise Chávez (2011), Taos writer John Nichols (2012), Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday (2013), Chicana writer Ana Castillo (2014), Santa Fe writer Anne Hillerman (2015), and Latinx writer Rigoberto Gonzalez (2016). For further information, visit the Anaya Lecture Series website at http://english.unm.edu/anaya, contact the Anaya Lecture Committee at anayalecture@unm.edu, or contact the UNM English Department at (505) 277-6347.
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