MFA Alumni Reading - Irena Praitis
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2017-11-29

For #ASUHomecoming we celebrated with readings from two talented alumni poets Irena Praitis (MFA '99; PhD '01) and Bojan Louis (MFA '09).

Based on eye-witness accounts, Irena Praitis's The Last Stone in the Circle chronicles experiences of prisoners in a WWII German work re-education camp. Delving into the murkiness of human experience in the face of suffering, the poems consider the complicated choices people make in impossibly difficult circumstances and explore the sheer resilience of survival.

Currents, by Diné writer Bojan Baldwin Louis, encompasses the kinetic dissonance of the contemporary struggle to coexist with self-inflicted eroding environments.

ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017