Endowed Paul W. and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair of Poetry and Writing
Director, Reynolds Series
Editor, Platte Valley Review
English Department
202 A Thomas Hall
hedgecokeaa@unk.edu
308-865-8672
Forthcoming Selected Presentations, Performances, & Events for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke:
*July-September 2009, Invitational Gallery Photography Solo-Show, Eastern Carolina University. Featured Photographer. Emerge Gallery, Pitt County Arts Council.
*September 14, 2009, Reading/ACTC Residency, Weyerhauser Ballroom, Macalester College, St. Paul. Dr. Wang Ping, host.
*September 24, 2009, “Many Souths: Remembering, Sustaining, Creating.”Eighth Biennial Southern Women Writers Conference, Keynote.
Berry College, Mount Berry, GA http://www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/english/swwc2009/
*September 25-26, 2009, Eastern Carolina University-North Carolina Return of NC Authors, Eastern Carolina Literary Homecoming, Featured Author. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/lithomecoming/authorinfo.cfm
*October 3-5, 2009, Western Literature Association, Black Hills State University. Keynote. http://www.usu.edu/westlit/conference2009.htm
*October 29-31, 2009, University of South Dakota, John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Featured Writer. http://blogs.usd.edu/english/
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November 13th, 2009, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
BAILEY LIBRARY, 227 ANDREWS
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING TO FOLLOW
Allison A. Hedge Coke is a noted poet and nature writer whose books include Dog Road Woman (1997), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Blood Run (2007), the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (2004), and Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim (2009). Her work is strongly influenced by her Cherokee and Huron heritage, and reflects her lifelong love and observation of the physical, animal, and plant worlds around us.
Visit/Reading. Dr. Fran Kaye, Organizer.
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November 14th, 2009, Nebraska Book Festival
Professor Hedge Coke will also be reading at the Nebraska Book Festival on Saturday, 14 November, from 3:15-3:45 in the Auditorium of the Nebraska State Historical Museum, 15th and P Streets, Lincoln.
Reading sponsored by Native American Studies, the Department of English, and the Place Conscious Literature Group, UNL
*November 19, 2009, Wayne State, Featured Reading.
*March 10-13, 2010, Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, Washington, DC. Featured. http://www.splitthisrock.org/poets2010.html
*April 7-10, 2009, AWP. http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010awpconf.php
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Pen America 2008 Year in Review Portrait and Beyond Margins Reading Photos
Lincoln Center, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium.
http://www.lincolncenter.org/load_screen.asp?screen=visitorinfo_hallinfo_nyplpa
Copyright © 2008 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center.
Audio clip: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2926/prmID/1502
Copyright © 2008 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center.
Allison Hedge Coke, PEN American Center Judge backstage with Amina & Amiri Baraka,
Beyonds Margins Award for Tales from the Out & Gone. Copyright © 2008 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center.
Complete Program: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2821/prmID/1494
*International Poetry Festival, Toronto April 24th-30th, 2009
Toronto, April 24, 2009 –
Kick-Off Press Conference Members’ Lounge, Toronto City Hall Launch of the International Festival of Poetry of Resistance
On Friday morning, the organizers of the First International Festival of Poetry of Resistance will be announcing :
The inauguration of the biennial Festival of Poetry for Toronto
Release of the Festival program for the ensuing week. Plans to develop Toronto as an international center for resistance poetry.
Scheduled to speak are:
Austin Clarke, renowned novelist
Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto
Lisa Makarchuk, Festival Co-ordinator
Visiting and local poets include Nancy Morejon, Poet Laureate of Cuba; Allison Hedge Coke, Reynolds Chair of Poetry, University of Nebraska; Gary Geddes, Lieutenant-Governor Award winner in B.C.; Jorge Etcheverry, Ambassador in Canada of Poetas del Mundo; Marilyn Lerch, President of the N.B. Writers Federation; Te Kupu, Maori multi-media artist, N.Z.; James Cockcroft, Quebec; and other published poets and guests from other countries.
Q & A to follow.
Cuban Five International Festival--Keynote & Featured Poet.*Hosted-UNK Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat & Festival March 15 - April 5, 2009.
Reynolds Series.
Sherwin Bitsui, Cristina Eisenberg, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Laura Tohe, Wang Ping.
Crane Retreat Public Presentations:
March 23rd, 2009. 12:15-1:15 Copeland Hall, 2-3 Robert P. Merryman Performing Arts Center, MONA 7-9.
*Ann Arbor, Reading with Jan Beatty at Shaman's Drum, March 26th, 2009.
http://www.shamandrum.com/bookshop/index.php?main_page=calendar&view=464
*Detroit, Wayne State, Reading with Jan Beatty March 29, 2009 Scarab Club 4PM. ML Liebler, host.
http://www.springfed.org/MDWfeature-1-09.html
*March 3rd, 2009. Native American Center University of Idaho Featured Reading
*March 4th, 2009. Keynote Reading Women's Conference University of Idaho.
*February 18th, 2009. Environmental Policy Panel
Explorer Will Steger, Poet & Activist Allison Hedge Coke, Former Senator Mark Dayton Featured Speakers.
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
1600 Grand Ave.
St. Paul, MN
651.696.6249
http://www.citypages.com/events/environmental-policy-forum-will-steger-mark-dayton-allison-hedge-coke-763087/
http://www.globalwarming101.com/
*February 17, 2009. Who Speaks for the Dead Panel. West Virginia University. Featured Panelist.
http://calendar.wvu.edu/eberly/index.php?eventid=58500&month=Feb2009
AWP Conference, February 11th-14th, 2009
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009schedSat.php
*BLACK EARTH INSTITUTE THINK TANK PANEL:
Patricia Monaghan (Chair), Annie Finch, Allison Hedge Coke, Linda Hogan, Richard Cambridge, Deborah Holton
Event Title #2: The Poet as Oracle. Oratory
Scheduled Day: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Scheduled Time: 12:00-1:15 pm
Scheduled Room: Chicago Hilton, Grand Ballroom
Title: Indigenous AWP Poets & Writers Read for the Chicago American Indian Center
Date & time: February 12th, 2009. 6-8:00 PM
Location: Chicago American Indian Center, Trickster Gallery
http://www.aic-chicago.org/trickster.html
www.aic-chicago.org
1630 W Wilson Ave
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 275-5871
Allison Hedge Coke & LeAnne Howe, Organizers.
Featured Readers: Simon Ortiz, Diane Glancy, Trish Lear, LeAnne Howe, Kim Blaeser, Allison Hedge Coke, Mark Turcotte, Heid Erdrich, Sherwin Bitsui, Orlando White, Santee Frazier, Travis Hedge Coke & Lara Mann.
AWP Saturday February 14, 2009. (Two Events, Same Room)
Waldorf, 3rd Floor S167
*UniVerse of Poetry: Cultural Duty of a Poet. Ophelia Zepeda, Allison Hedge Coke, Fady Joudah. 12:15
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Brain Power: Processing the Beautiful and the Horrendous. Allison Hedge Coke (Chair), Peggy Shumaker, Linda Hogan, & Mira Bartok. Brain injury presents uniquely significant challenges to creative process, yet affords uniquely stimulating conceptualized possibility in a simultaneous manner. Each of the panelists included on this panel have cajoled memoir and life-story from revelations made apparent through their climb up and down the noodled rungs of brain trauma or neurological dilemma. We will consider the work presenting panelists and of Maxine Kumin and Floyd Skloot who support this panel. 1:45
*January 15, 2009. Featured Reading at MONA, 7:00 pm.
*Stories from the Maze Tohono O'odam Reservation Youth, Visiting Writer Residency, January 5-8, 2009.
*Low-Residency MFA University of Nebraska December 27-January 4, Teaching Residency, Lecture, Workshop, Featured Reading..
*Macalester College December 9th, 2008. Featured Reading, Rivers Festival.
*December 3rd, 2008. PEN USA Awards, National Judge.
*December 1st, 2008. Hosted Don Welch Book Party, MONA.
*November 18th, 2008. SUNY Fredonia, Featured Reading.
*November 5th, 2008. Oxnard Community College, Scholars Lecture Series, Featured Lecture-Reading.
*October 29, 2008. Hosted, Quincy Troupe Reading Performance. Reynolds Series.
*October 24, 2008. Hosted, Marvin Bell Reading Performance. Reynolds Series.
*Tuesday, October 14th, 2008. PEN American Awards, NYC, Judge, Reading Presentation.
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1491
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2821/prmID/1494
http://flickr.com/photos/penamericancenter/sets/72157609615047579/show/
*October 11th, 2008. Bowery Poetry Club Featured Reading with LaTasha Diggs.
*September 26-28, 2008. SD Book Festival, Featured Reading.
*September 25, 2008. Hosted, Carol Moldaw Reading Performance. Reynolds Series.
*September 17, 2008. Northeast Community College, Featured Reading.
*September 16, 2008. Wayne State University, Featured Reading.
*September 11, 2008. Hosted, Arthur Sze Reading Performance.
Reynolds Series.
Bio:
Allison Hedge Coke has been an invitational performer in international poetry festivals in Medellin, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan and guest UNK faculty (poet & writer) at Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. She is a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, MacDowell Colony for Artists, Black Earth Institute Think Tank, Hawthornden Castle, and Center for Great Plains Research Fellow, is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Appointment Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hartwick College, and holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry as an Associate Professor of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney where she directs the Reynolds Reading Series and Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat. She is core faculty in the University of Nebraska MFA Program and Visiting Faulty of the MFA Intensive Programs at University of California, Palm Desert and Naropa University, and delivered the 2008 Paul Hanly Furfey Endowed Lecture. Her books include: Dog Road Woman, American Book Award, Coffee House Press, 1997; The Year of the Rat, chapbook, Grimes Press, 2000; Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, AIROS Book-of-the-Month, University of Nebraska Press, 2004; Off-Season City Pipe, Wordcraft Writer of the Year for Poetry, Coffee House Press, 2005; Blood Run, Wordcraft Writer of the Year for Poetry, Salt Publications, UK 2006-US 2007; To Topos Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Journal Issue of the Year Award (ed.), Oregon State University, 2007; and Effigies, (ed.), Salt Publications, 2009. She has edited six other volumes. Her long poem "The Year of the Rat" is currently being made into a ballet through collaboration with Brent Michael Davids, composer. Recent literary publications include Connecticut Review, Prometeo Memories, Akashic Books, Black Renaissance Noire, Kenyon Review, Many Mountains Moving, Bombay Gin, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. Recent photography publications include Connecticut Review, Future Earth Magazine and Digital Poetics. She has also authored a full-length play Icicles, numerous monologues, and has worked in theater, television, and film. Hedge Coke has been awarded several state and regional artistic and literary grants, fellowships, and tours; multiple excellence in teaching awards, including the King Chavez Parks Award; a Sioux Falls Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence; a National Mentor of the Year, a Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award; has served on several state, community, and national boards in the arts, a housing board, as a Delegate, in the United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, and as a United Nations Presenting Speaker on impact of publications (by invitation of James Thomas Stevens), as a Facilitator, and Speaker Nominator for the only Literature Panel of the Forum, Speakers nominated by Hedge Coke, include: Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy, Ariruma Kowii, Natalia Toledo, Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo, Maurice Kenny... She received her third and fourth Pushcart Prize nominations in 2009, for work published in 2008. For many years she has worked with incarcerated and underserved Indigenous youth and youth of color mentorship programs and served as a court official for CASA serving also in Indian youth advocacy within the courts. Hedge Coke is currently editing two separate book series of emerging Indigenous writing (for Salt Publishing and Red Hen Press). She came of age in North Carolina working fields, waters, horses, and working in factories.