Panel: Open Spaces

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

19-3-1987 12:00 PM

End Date

19-3-1987 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 19, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” James Welch, Joy Harjo, Paul St. Pierre, and Ralph Beer participate in a panel called “Open Spaces.” Beer opens by reading an essay he prepared for the panel. The panelists discuss their sense of open space, imagination, differences between Native and non-Native literary notions of the West, nostalgia of the West, and the popularity of American Indian literature. During the panel, Joy Harjo reads “Grace.”

Moderated by Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

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Panel: Open Spaces

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 19, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” James Welch, Joy Harjo, Paul St. Pierre, and Ralph Beer participate in a panel called “Open Spaces.” Beer opens by reading an essay he prepared for the panel. The panelists discuss their sense of open space, imagination, differences between Native and non-Native literary notions of the West, nostalgia of the West, and the popularity of American Indian literature. During the panel, Joy Harjo reads “Grace.”

Moderated by Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1987/day3/1