June 17, 2023, 1:30 pm
Presenter: Denise Low
Embellishing Prose and Poetry with Memoir
Presentation location pending.
Denise Low, the 2nd Kansas Poet Laureate, is a founding member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Her memoir Turtle’s Beating Heart: A Lenape Family Story of Survival will be released in a new edition, 2023, and her Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays (Meadowlark, 2022) is part Covid memoir and part lyrical essays—with some poems braided in. She has awards from the Kansas Center for the Book (4), Red Mountain Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Low teaches for Baker University and now resides in Sonoma County, California.
Presenter: Denise Low
Embellishing Prose and Poetry with Memoir
Presentation location pending.
Denise Low, the 2nd Kansas Poet Laureate, is a founding member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Her memoir Turtle’s Beating Heart: A Lenape Family Story of Survival will be released in a new edition, 2023, and her Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays (Meadowlark, 2022) is part Covid memoir and part lyrical essays—with some poems braided in. She has awards from the Kansas Center for the Book (4), Red Mountain Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Low teaches for Baker University and now resides in Sonoma County, California.
Join the fun at Evergreen Library 2601 N. Arkansas in Wichita. We will view Denise Low's presentation on the large screen. After the video, we'll look at kAC award-winning memoir entries in 2021 and 2022. Discussion will center on how to improve our memoir writing.