#R C Gorman

[yourdailyqueer]

R. C. Gorman (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 26 July 1931

RIP: 3 November 2005

Ethnicity: Native American (Navajo)

Occupation: Artist, sculptor

Note 1: Opened the Navajo Gallery in Taos in 1968. It was the first Native American-owned art gallery. In 1973, he was the only living artist whose work was shown in the "Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian" exhibition held at Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Two of his pieces were selected for the cover of the exhibit's catalog.

Note 2: Upon his death, New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson ordered flags flown at half-staff in his honor.

Note 3: Referred to as "the Picasso of American Indian artists" by The New York Times.

#R. C. Gorman #R C Gorman #Rudolph Carl Gorman #native american history #lgbt history #lgbt #male #gay #1931 #rip #historical #poc #native #native american #artist #sculptor #first #popular #popular post #200

[govtshutdown]

If they elect a speaker today

Congressional Reporter Reese Gorman of the Washington Examiner stated on C-SPAN that if Johnson is elected speaker today, the first action will be to pass a bill condemning Hamas, the second would be to pass a continuing resolution, extending the budget to either January 15th or April 15th. We are 23 days away from the November 17th deadline, so either would be welcome.

#government shutdown? #Speaker vote #Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) #Reese Gorman #Washington Examiner #C-SPAN #continuing resolution #CR #stopgap #kick the can #extension #FY2024 #23 days left #u.s. house of representatives #house of representatives

[youcannottakeitwithyou]

R. C. (Rudolph Carl) Gorman (Native American — Navajo, 1931–2005).

[coochiequeens]

Today for Women History Month we honor the birthdays of two women in the arts, Janet Collins and Amanda Gorman

Janet Collins (March 7, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was an African American ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television.[1] She was among the pioneers of black ballet dancing, one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation.

Janet Faye[2] Collins was born in New Orleans, and at the age of four moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where Collins received her first dance training at a Catholic community center. She studied primarily with Carmelita Maracci, Lester Horton, and Adolph Bolm, who were among the few ballet teachers who accepted black students. She also had fond memories of studying with Los Angeles dance teacher Dorothy Lyndall.

Amanda S. C. Gorman[1] (born March 7, 1998)[2] is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.

Her inauguration poem generated international acclaim, and shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status, and she obtained a professional management contract. In February 2021, Gorman was highlighted in Time magazine's 100 Next list under the category of "Phenoms", with a profile written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.[3] That same month, Gorman became the first poet to perform at the Super Bowl, when she delivered her poem "Chorus of the Captains" at Super Bowl LV.

Born in Los Angeles, California,[5][6] Gorman was raised by her single mother, Joan Wicks, a 6th-grade English teacher in Watts,[7] with her two siblings.[5][8] Her twin sister, Gabrielle, is an activist[9] and filmmaker.[10]Gorman has said she grew up in an environment with limited television access.[11] She has described her young self as a "weird child" who enjoyed reading and writing and was encouraged by her mother.[5]

Gorman has an auditory processing disorder and is hypersensitive to sound.[5] She also had a speech impediment during childhood.[12][13]Gorman participated in speech therapy during her childhood and Elida Kocharian of The Harvard Crimson wrote in 2018, "Gorman doesn't view her speech impediment as a crutch—rather, she sees it as a gift and a strength."[14] Gorman told The Harvard Gazette in 2018, "I always saw it as a strength because since I was experiencing these obstacles in terms of my auditory and vocal skills, I became really good at reading and writing. I realized that at a young age when I was reciting the Marianne Deborah Williamson quote that 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure' to my mom."[1] In 2021, Gorman told CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason that she used songs as a form of speech therapy, and explained, "My favorite thing to practice was the song 'Aaron Burr, Sir,' from Hamilton because it is jam-packed with R's. And I said, 'if I can keep up with Leslie in this track, then I am on my way to being able to say this R in a poem."

#Women’s History Month #Janey Collins #March 7 #women in the arts #African American women in ballet #Amanda Gorman #African American women poets #The Hill We Climb #Best selling books by women #Call Us What We Carry

[cheshirelibrary]

Books That Can Help Combat Loneliness 

[via Penguin Random House]

More and more people report feeling lonely, with over half of Americans saying they feel this way. Yet through stories, we can connect and see that there is far more understanding than we think. If you find it challenging to connect with others around you, or even with yourself, then perhaps connecting with the right story is precisely what you need to feel a little less alone.

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce   

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas   

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman    

How to Tell a Story by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness and Kate Tellers

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates   

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman  

Solito by Javier Zamora 

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks   

...

Click through to see more titles.

#cheshire library #book list #recommended reading #book rec #book recommendations

[lemonysnicket]

sage, nutmeg, and taro?

hi sunnyyY!!!

sage -> what ‘medium’ of art (poetry, music, fiction, paintings, statues etc.) is the most touching to you? why do you think that is?

oh boy oh boy... for me it's always music or paintings! music is always emotionally moving but every once in a while there will be a melody that just. Floors me. but also... certain paintings make my chest hurt with how they make me feel. the fun part of going to museums is seeing beautiful things and enjoying the stay but then... every once in a while you'll see a painting that just Hits. i have a few ive taken photos of over the years, but also literally nothing compares to seeing them in person. it's that feeling i get staring at the canvas that completely overwhelms me i wish i could capture it. i remember in the dreamer trilogy declan is looking at a blank gray painting and says something like "it just makes me want to goddamn cry" and he's so real for that i feel it every day. here are a few! i wish i remembered their titles or artists,,,

this one is the most tender depiction of queer love i've ever seen. the faces, the colors, the brush strokes and the way it fades off into abstraction... there's so much love in this painting i could cry

this one is by the same artist as the first! genuinely i got lost in this painting. i wish photos could capture it but this took up a whole wall and i couldn't stop looking at it. the colors, the detail on the faces and the abstraction everywhere else, the movement... had i not been with someone on this museum trip i could've sat looking at this painting all day.

now, this one... this one left me overcome with a feeling i genuinely cannot find the words to describe. i just can't quite put my finger on it, but it overwhelmed me with something . my chest hurt looking at it. the title of this painting was "painting for my dad" and the title and the black void of the painting were already so touching for me but someone had left a bouquet by it who knows how long ago, and all of that combined just Floored me

i don't really know what it is about this one - it's just bizarre and there are just these flat colors and these vertical trees and spindly lines that make me feel Something. idk. i just remember i couldn't stop staring at it

god i wish my phone camera could capture the beauty of oil paints - you can see how gorgeous this work is but you can't truly experience its beauty because it looked like she was glowing. her eyes had this luscious sparkle to them, and something about the painting had me transfixed. i walked around the rest of the museum with my family and i ended up wandering back to her on my own because i just could not stop looking at her. i fell in love with this painting and the woman in it for those few hours

r. c. gorman's works always make me feel a certain sort of way. the flatness and the abstract planes of the desert and the beautiful colors always create such a specific vibe and atmosphere that leaves me breathless

okay wow i went on a tangent! back to the actual questions lol

nutmeg -> how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

oooh!! ok so my room is quite a mess because i shared it for ages so there is way too much furniture and stuff in there and none of it matches or is cohesive. HOWEVER i do have one little section that is my absolute pride and joy. i have this old antique wooden dresser with this dark wood and this attached scuffed old mirror that's just gorgeous . i love it so much. i covered it with a little lace doily thing and an assorted collection of rocks i've picked up from rivers and beaches. there's a salt lamp on it, too, and a whole bunch of candles. i also have an adjacent section of wall i've decorated with post cards from art museums, so there are little art pieces next to it :3 while the rest of my room is not really that cute and doesn't share this theme, i do have a style that's very antique inspired

taro -> if someone called you right now to catch up, what’re the things you’d tell them about?

oooooh! i would probably tell them about how i've picked up guitar lately, how i'm learning a few adrianne lenker songs and i've learned the bug collector. i'd probably also talk about how i've gotten back into rp and i've been writing and brainrotting with friends. or my incoming academic stress, lol

#thank you for the ask! #ty sunny :33 #ask games #these are fun

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 23, 2022

Feedforward and feedback influences through distinct frequency bands between two spiking-neuron networks. Dalla Porta, L., Castro, D. M., Copelli, M., Carelli, P. V., & Matias, F. S. (2021). Physical Review E, 104(5), 054404.

Medial Entorhinal Cortex Excitatory Neurons Are Necessary for Accurate Timing. Dias, M., Ferreira, R., & Remondes, M. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(48), 9932–9943.

Recruitment and inhibitory action of hippocampal axo-axonic cells during behavior. Dudok, B., Szoboszlay, M., Paul, A., Klein, P. M., Liao, Z., Hwaun, E., … Soltesz, I. (2021). Neuron, 109(23), 3838-3850.e8.

Sleep replay reveals premotor circuit structure for a skilled behavior. Elmaleh, M., Kranz, D., Asensio, A. C., Moll, F. W., & Long, M. A. (2021). Neuron, 109(23), 3851-3861.e4.

Attention controls multisensory perception via two distinct mechanisms at different levels of the cortical hierarchy. Ferrari, A., & Noppeney, U. (2021). PLOS Biology, 19(11), e3001465.

Memories in a network with excitatory and inhibitory plasticity are encoded in the spiking irregularity. Gallinaro, J. V., & Clopath, C. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009593.

Diverse processing underlying frequency integration in midbrain neurons of barn owls. Gorman, J. C., Tufte, O. L., Miller, A. V. R., DeBello, W. M., Peña, J. L., & Fischer, B. J. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009569.

An implicit representation of stimulus ambiguity in pupil size. Graves, J. E., Egré, P., Pressnitzer, D., & de Gardelle, V. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(48), e2107997118.

Causal inference regulates audiovisual spatial recalibration via its influence on audiovisual perception. Hong, F., Badde, S., & Landy, M. S. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1008877.

Nonlinear visuoauditory integration in the mouse superior colliculus. Ito, S., Si, Y., Litke, A. M., & Feldheim, D. A. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009181.

Dissecting cascade computational components in spiking neural networks. Jia, S., Xing, D., Yu, Z., & Liu, J. K. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009640.

A confirmation bias in perceptual decision-making due to hierarchical approximate inference. Lange, R. D., Chattoraj, A., Beck, J. M., Yates, J. L., & Haefner, R. M. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009517.

Active strategies for multisensory conflict suppression in the virtual hand illusion. Lanillos, P., Franklin, S., Maselli, A., & Franklin, D. W. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 22844.

Sensory coding and contrast invariance emerge from the control of plastic inhibition over emergent selectivity. Larisch, R., Gönner, L., Teichmann, M., & Hamker, F. H. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009566.

Thalamic circuits for independent control of prefrontal signal and noise. Mukherjee, A., Lam, N. H., Wimmer, R. D., & Halassa, M. M. (2021). Nature, 600(7887), 100–104.

The dynamics of decision-making and action during active sampling. Ozbagci, D., Moreno-Bote, R., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 23067.

Rational regulation of water-seeking effort in rodents. Reinagel, P. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(48), e2111742118.

Temporal order of signal propagation within and across intrinsic brain networks. Veit, M. J., Kucyi, A., Hu, W., Zhang, C., Zhao, B., Guo, Z., … Parvizi, J. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(48), e2105031118.

Self-organization of a doubly asynchronous irregular network state for spikes and bursts. Vercruysse, F., Naud, R., & Sprekeler, H. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(11), e1009478.

Developmental Regulation of Homeostatic Plasticity in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex. Wen, W., & Turrigiano, G. G. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(48), 9891–9905.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #cognitive science #neurons #neural networks #neural computation #neurobiology #psychophysics

[beautyofnavajoart]

R.C. Gorman, Moon River, lithograph 

R.C Gorman was an internationally recognized queer Navajo artist and namesake of the R.C Gorman Navajo Gallery of Sedona in 2016, the fourth of its kind, with the first being in Taos, New Mexico  where he lived and worked until his death in 2005. A prolific third-generation artist, he was friends with Andy Warhol and Elizabeth Taylor and became a mainstream artist in his lifetime, yet always prioritized sticking to his roots and representing his culture. Dawn Walker, the Sedona gallery’s manager, told Sedona Monthly that “his work bridge[d] the gap between avant-garde and commercial art.”. He was also dubbed the “Picasso of American Indian Artists” by the New York Times. His lithographs often feature Navajo women admiring, or at least in the midst of, the beautiful Arizona landscape. Recurring backdrops include where he used to tend sheep with his grandmother and aunts, in Canyon de Chelly, where he’d often draw on sand, mud, rocks and sculpted with clay. His grandmother, who he also lived with, encouraged him to become an artist while equipping him with the stories of his artist ancestors and Navajo legends.

His tranquil scenes of Indigenous life sometimes verge on the surreal, creating a mystical, dreamy scene for the viewer to fall into. The role of the woman here honours Indigenous women as earth nurturers. Gorman’s stylistic tendencies borrow from Navajo pottery design and Mexican murals, re-interpreting and re-contextualizing them in these paintings.  His work was important in shaping the modern Indigenous artistic aesthetic, and became highly influential for contemporary Indigenous artists today. 

SOURCES: 

https://sedonamonthly.com/2017/r-c-gorman-navajo-gallery-sedona/

Image source: Photograph by Michael Thompson for Sedona Monthly

[fyrenyx]

May the stars carry your sadness away,

May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,

May hope forever wipe away your tears,

And, above all, may silence make you strong.

✍️ Chief Dan George ✨

🎨 R C Gorman

[custompictureframer]

“Dream Night” is a print from an original stone lithograph by renowned Navajo artist R. C. Gorman (1931-2005). We just LOVE how ethereal the print looks archivally presented in a textured gold moulding from Roma’s “Vintage collection, suede matting from Larson Juhl, gold fillet from Decor, and Tru Vue Museum glass!

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[thaoworra]

With November we have all of the winners finally in for the major Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association awards. This was a big year for all as the association marked its 45th year. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and nominees, and a big round of applause to all of the chairs who worked tirelessly to ensure a smooth process:

Elgin Awards Now in its tenth year, the first place Elgin Award winner for Book of the Year is Some Disassembly Required by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Diminuendo Press, 2022). Second place went to The Saint of Witches by Avra Margariti (Weasel Press, 2022), while third place was a tie between  Elegies of Rotted Stars by Tiffany Morris (Nictitating Books, 2022) and Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution by Rebecca Buchanan (Jackanapes Press, 2022),  The Elgin Award winner for Chapbook of the Year is The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems by Jane Yolen (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021). The second place chapbook was Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets by Bruce Boston (Mind’s Eye Publishing, 2022).  The third place went to Cajuns in Space by Denise Dumars (self-published, 2022).

Morgan L Ventura served as the 2023 Chair of the Elgin Awards. 78 members voted on the selections. 58 books had been nominated and 18 chapbooks had been nominated.

Rhysling Awards For the Rhysling awards, in the Long Poem category, Colleen Anderson’s “Machine (r)Evolution” from Radon Journal 2 received first place. In the Short Poem category there was a tie between Jennifer Crow’s “Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon” from Star*Line 45.1 and Terese Mason Pierre’s “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” from Uncanny 46.  The second place award in the Long Poem category went to Rebecca Buchanan’s “The Bone Tree” from Not A Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press) and the second place in the Short Poem category went to Sarah Grey’s “Bitch Moon” from Nightmare Magazine 118. The 2023 third place Long Poem was  Akua Lezli Hope’s “Igbo Landing II” which first appeared in Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press). The third place award for Short Poem was a tie between Amelia Gorman’s “The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End” from The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications) and Lisa Timpf’s “First Contact” from Eye to the Telescope 44. Rhysling honorable mentions in the Short Poem category included “Field Notes from the Anthropocene” by Priya Chand Nightmare Magazine 116,  “Near the end, your mother tells you she’s been seeing someone” by Shannon Connor Winward, from the SFPA Poetry Contest, and “Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga” by Stephanie M. Wytovich from Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga. In the Long Poem category, honorable mentions were given to “Herbaceous Citadel” by Avra Margariti in The Fairy Tale Magazine January 4,  “Living in Rubble” by Gerri Leen from Eccentric Orbits 3, and “The Thing About Stars” by Avra Magariti from The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press).

Maxwell I. Gold was this year’s Rhysling chair. 102 short poems were nominated, and 70 long poems were nominated from across 94 publications and collections. 114 members voted.

Dwarf Stars The 2023 Dwarf Stars were tied for first place with “Believe the Graves” by Rasha Abdulhadi from The Deadlands 16 and “In Perpetuity” by Bruce Boston in Analog, July/August 2022. The second place award went to “Excerpt from a Proposal for the New City” by Alyssa Lo from Strange Horizons, 11/14. The third place was tied between “As Slow as Starlight” by Kim Whysall-Hammond in Frozen Wavelets 7, “Surviving” by Sumiko Saulson in The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines), and  “Trichotillomania” by Warsan Shire in Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Random House). This year’s chairs were David C. Kopaska Merkel and Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD. This year 120 members reviewed 105 poems across 54 venues.

SFPA Poetry Contest Judge Michael Arnzen selected the winners of this year’s SFPA Poetry Contest. Prizes were offered in three divisions: Dwarf (≤10 lines), Short, and Long (50+ lines). Contest chair R. Thursday received 439 entries (114 dwarf-length, 253 short, and 72 long poems) from around the world.

Dwarf Form: First place “Calcination” by Colleen Anderson Second place “What Ghosts Didn’t Do” by Mary Soon Lee Third Place [open window] by Michael Nickels-Wisdom

Dwarf Form Honorable Mentions: “All Sales Final!” by Alan Vincent Michaels “Starstruck” by S. Iya Iya “My Mother’s Eyes” by Chad Stanke “Poisoned Gold Sprinkles” by Greer Woodward “Black Sea” by Anna Cates

Short Form: First place “Abraham Lincoln Addresses the Nation Before He is Executed by Interstellar Invaders” by Kate Boyes Second place “Embryo Warehouse” by Amber Winter and Joshua St. Claire Third Place “A Jar of Cherries” by Jay Caselberg

Short Form Honorable Mentions: “Hovering Free” by Hamant Sing “In Which I Tell You Speculative Fiction is the Trans Body” by West Ambrose “Charming” by Anna Cates “Considering Fuseli’s ‘The Nightmare'” by Frank Coffman “Enceladus Elegy” by Bradley Earle Hoge

Long Form: First place “Metamorfish” by Randall Andrews Second place “Nightmare in Blue” by Kurt Newton Third Place “Wake Unto Death” by Lori R. Lopez

Long Form Honorable Mentions: “This Body Isn’t Mine” by Christina Connerton “The Odd Couple” by Anna Cates “The Origin of ‘The Steamster'” by Jerri Hardesty “Panopticon” by F.J. Bergmann “An Eschaton of Ice” by John Bell

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association was established in 1978 by Suzette Haden-Elgin and has an international membership representing over 19 nations and cultures including United States, Italy, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Israel, South Africa, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, the Hmong, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association publishes two journals: Star*Line and Eye to the Telescope. It oversees three major literary awards for poetry: The Rhyslings, the Dwarf Stars, and the Elgin Awards. They also conduct an annual science fiction poetry contest and other special events and gatherings. Further, they also provide resources for emerging and established poets seeking professional publication and networking opportunities.

[sociomedicalpsychedelia]

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Exline, Julie J., William A. Schutt, Kathleen C. Pait, and Joshua A. Wilt. 2022. “Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes about Psychedelics, Opinions about Legalization, and Interest in Personal Use.” The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1–19.

Gardner, John, Adrian Carter, Kerry O’Brien, and Kate Seear. 2019. “Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: The Past, and the Need to Move Forward Responsibly.” International Journal of Drug Policy 70:94–98.

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#citations

[scarecrowbox]

R. C. Gorman, Untitled, 1974

#R. C. Gorman #perse #fashion #style #photography #film photography #art #artist #design #designer #paint #painter #drawing #1974 #70s #america

[uwmspeccoll]

Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week

Luci Tapahonso

Luci Tapahonso is a Navajo poet and educator, and was the first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, 2013-2015. Encouraged by the Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko, Tapahonso pursued a career in writing, receiving her MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico in 1983. English is Tapahonso’s second language, Navajo or Diné being her native tongue. Much of her work are actually translations from her Diné compositions. After a series of published collections and inclusions in anthologies, Tapahonoso achieved international recognition with the University of Arizona Sun Track Series bilingual publication Sáanii Dahataał, The Women are Singing in 1993, and solidified her reputation with the 1997 Sun Tracks publication Blue Horses Rush In.

For her work, Tapahonso has won numerous awards and honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and an American Book Awards, Honorable Mention. Tapahonso’s publications often include the work of Native American visual artists. For example, the cover art for Sáanii Dahataał and A Radiant Curve (Sun Tracks, 2006) are by Navajo painter and printmaker Emmi Whitehorse, and the illustrations for her early collection of poems Seasonal Woman (1982) are by Navajo artist R. C. Gorman. Luci Tapahonso has taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of Kansas, and she is currently a professor at the University of Arizona.

Luci Tapahonso will be in Milwaukee next month, offering a reading of her work at Milwaukee’s premier literary-arts center, Woodland Pattern Book Center, on April 11, and a Craft Talk here at UW-Milwaukee on April 12.

The image of Tapahonso above is from a reading at Radcliffe in 2015. 

See other writers we have featured in Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week.

#Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week #Luci Tapahonso #Diné #Navajo writers #poetry #leslie marmon silko #Emmis Whitehorse #R. C. Gorman #women's history month #Native Americans #Native American Literature Collection

[pogphotoarchives]

R. C. Gorman signing posters at an arts festival

Photographer: Barbaraellen Koch Date: ca. 1980 Negative Number: HP.2014.14.2168 The Santa Fe New Mexican Collection

#ArchivesSignatures #ArchivesHashtagParty #rc gorman #artist #native american

[middleland]

"Aunts and Mom Calvey" by Mike Sherk Via Flickr:

L to R: Unknown, Doreen Spencer Calvey, Helen Calvey Kelley, Ellen "Helen" Murray Calvey, Marion Calvey Gorman. Ancestry caption: "3380 W. 136th Cleveland," Ohio. c. 1950s?

#cleveland ohio #cuyahoga county #1950s #pictures of strangers