Writers House Events
There is always something happening at the Writers House.
Visiting Writers Series
March 10, 2022
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VIRTUAL: Joy Harjo
In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, and she has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words. Her many writing awards include the 2019 Jackson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
March 24, 2022
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VIRTUAL: Dr. Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. He is the author of Understanding Socialism and Understanding Marxism. His latest book is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.
For more information, visit www.democracyatwork.info.
April 20, 2022
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IN PERSON: Dr. Nina Banks
Nina Banks is Associate Professor of Economics at Bucknell and President of the National Economic Association (NEA). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Editorial Board of The Review of Black Political Economy. Her research makes visible the unseen work of Black and other marginalized women by developing an economics of their unpaid work and community activism against racial and ethnic disparities. Her determination to restore Black women to U.S. economic history led to the recovery of the economic thought of the first Black American economist, Sadie T.M. Alexander. Professor Banks is the author of Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander, and her research has been featured in popular media outlets including NPR, the Economist, the New York Times, and elsewhere.
April 27, 2022
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IN PERSON: Dr. Christian Bolden
Christian L. Bolden is the Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor in Criminology and Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His recent book Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption(Rutgers University Press) received the 2020 Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Convict Criminology. In 2012-2013, Dr. Bolden was the “Futurist in Residence” research fellow for the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. His areas of research are gang histories and processes, mass incarceration, and human trafficking.
