Reading: Susan Deer Cloud
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
1-4-2011 4:00 PM
End Date
1-4-2011 5:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 1, 2011, as part of the 42nd Annual UND Writers Conference: "(Inter)National Affairs," Susan Deer Cloud reads from her work. Deer Cloud begins her reading with a poem inspired by the first poetry she ever read entitled “Sleeping with Carl.” The poem contains an epigraph from Carl Sandburg’s poem “Cool Tombs.” Deer Cloud also reads her poems, “Marlon Brando Dies at 80,” “Are You an Old Hippie They Ask Me,” “Buffalo Nickel Makes Return,” “I Hate Emily and Sylvia a.k.a. NDN Ars Poetica,” “On Turtle’s Back Rising Out of the Brainwashed Waters,” “Poetry Long as Hair,” and "Sugar Daddy." Deer Cloud also mentions her book Car Stealer and the anthology of Native American literature for which she served as editor, I was Indian Before Being Indian was Cool.
Dr. Denise Lajimodiere, an assistant professor of education at NDSU of Native American descent, also reads some of her poetry, including “Grand Forks,” “Portland, 1970s,” “My Grandfather was a New Initiate,” “Bag Balm,” “Tracks,” “Sweet Water Well,” and “Holy Hamm’s Beer.”
Introduced by Meg Brown.
Streaming Media
Reading: Susan Deer Cloud
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 1, 2011, as part of the 42nd Annual UND Writers Conference: "(Inter)National Affairs," Susan Deer Cloud reads from her work. Deer Cloud begins her reading with a poem inspired by the first poetry she ever read entitled “Sleeping with Carl.” The poem contains an epigraph from Carl Sandburg’s poem “Cool Tombs.” Deer Cloud also reads her poems, “Marlon Brando Dies at 80,” “Are You an Old Hippie They Ask Me,” “Buffalo Nickel Makes Return,” “I Hate Emily and Sylvia a.k.a. NDN Ars Poetica,” “On Turtle’s Back Rising Out of the Brainwashed Waters,” “Poetry Long as Hair,” and "Sugar Daddy." Deer Cloud also mentions her book Car Stealer and the anthology of Native American literature for which she served as editor, I was Indian Before Being Indian was Cool.
Dr. Denise Lajimodiere, an assistant professor of education at NDSU of Native American descent, also reads some of her poetry, including “Grand Forks,” “Portland, 1970s,” “My Grandfather was a New Initiate,” “Bag Balm,” “Tracks,” “Sweet Water Well,” and “Holy Hamm’s Beer.”
Introduced by Meg Brown.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2011/day4/3
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