Events
Fall 2018 Professionals of Color Lecture Series: Transgender Day of Remembrance with Qwo-Li Driskill
Date and Time
Monday, November 19, 2018 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Description
LIB 100/201 APPROVED
Cherokee poet, scholar, and activist Qwo-Li Driskill was raised in
rural Colorado. Driskill earned a BA from the University of Northern
Colorado, an MA from Antioch University Seattle, and a PhD from
Michigan State University.
Driskill’s poetry engages themes
of inheritance and healing, and is rooted in personal Cherokee
Two-Spirit, queer, and mixed-race experience. Walking with
Ghosts (2005), Driskill’s first poetry collection, was named Book
of the Month by Sable: The LitMag for New Writing and was
nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Driskill co-edited,
with Colin Kennedy Donovan, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans
(Dis)ability Zine (2007), and has work featured in several
anthologies, including Beyond Masculinity: Essays by Queer Men on
Gender and Politics (2008, edited by Trevor Hoppe) and
Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry
(2003, edited by Janice Gould and Dean Rader). The poet is the
founder of Dragonfly Rising Press.
Driskill has taught at
Antioch University Seattle and Texas A&M University.
Contact
Office of Multicultural Affairs at (616) 331-2177 or visit www.gvsu.edu/oma.