Prairie Lights Books and Cafe
15 South Dubuque Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
United States
EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVENT BEIGNS AT 7 PM CT.
Translator and author Wendy Call will read from How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, by Mexican-Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez.
Wendy Call
Wendy Call is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and Best Literary Translations, author of the award-winning No Word for Welcome, and translator of two collections of poetry by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda.
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. Steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant.