PST
Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Beth Piatote at Pegasus Books downtown for a reading and discussion of her latest work, distant water.
Beth Piatote
Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Poetry
Poems
Preorder now for May!
As a scholar of Native American literature and law, Beth Piatote focuses on the endangerment of Indigenous languages. As an activist, she moves against the current of English-language colonization, working to rescue and revitalize the language of her people. Language, she posits, is an expression of land, a means through which we can travel great distances.