Join the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program, the Humanities Institute, and the UT Poetry Center for a conversation and poetry reading featuring award-winning Diné poet Jake Skeets. UT Austin Professor of Anthropology Anthony K. Webster will moderate a discussion of Skeets' work, and Skeets will share poems from his books Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (2019, Milkweed Editions) and Horses (2026, Milkweed Editions).
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About Jake Skeets:
Jake Skeets is the author of two books of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award, and the highly anticipated second collection, Horses. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
Location: Perry-Castañeda Library, UT Poetry Center, UFCU Room (PCL 2.500)