She is the author of five novels, three books of essays, eight books of poetry, one book of plays and has frequently been anthologized. Glancy, who is poet laureate of the Five Civilized Tribes, has received numerous awards for her work, including a McKnight Fellowship Award of Distinction, a Sundance Native American Screenwriting Fellowship, the Wordcraft Circle of Writers Award for Prose and Playwriting, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. She will lead a discussion emanating from her book of essays, The West Pole, in which she explores the ways the structure of Native American storytelling reflects and shapes her own sense identity. The highlight of Glancy s visit will be at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19, when she will read from her recent poetry and prose in the Baldwin Lounge as apart of the Native American Heritage and Awareness Club meeting. At 8 a.m. on Oct. 20, Glancy will participate in a discussion of her novel, Pushing the Bear, in Somsen Auditorium.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Ken McCullough at 5857. Students and faculty from Minnesota's Community Colleges will visit the campus for two days, take hands-on workshops, attending art lectures and view gallery exhibitions. Lucy Lippard, an artist and activist, will be among the presenters. Lippard will share her personal experiences in feminism, politics, tourism and community and public art land use on Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. in Somsen Auditorium. A reception will follow the lecture.