MARK ALLEN EVERETT POETRY SERIES (NORMAN, OKLAHOMA)

Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series

Norman, Oklahoma

April 10, 2019

 Curator and poet Crag Hill on way to The Depot to set up

Poet Todd Fuller with introductions

Crag Hill with introductions

Crag Hill presenting the hay(na)ku

Post-reading dinner with Crag Hill and Timothy Bradford 

Crag Hill with the gift of an important book on Vispo that he co-edited with Nico Vassilakis

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Prior to the reading, I also visited two high schools to introduce the hay(na)ku. Here are the high school teachers I met! Both are pictured with a copy of my One, Two, Three, Selected Hay(na)ku:

Amber Worster Lawson at Norman North High School 

Sara Doolittle at Norman High School 

Esteemed poet Crag Hill was my chauffeur

What a lovely experience--thank you Mark Allen Everett and University of Oklahoma.

I am also grateful for the chance to Honor Native Land by invoking the people who were in Oklahoma before me and settlers. I was blessed to invoke them at the start of my reading--Thank you to

Apache 

Arapaho 

Caddo 

Cheyenne 

Comanche 

Delaware of Western Oklahoma  

Ft. Sill Apache 

Kiowa  

Wichita  

Iowa 

Kaw  

Kickapoo  

Osage 

Otoc-Missouri  

Pawnee  

Potawatomi  

Pouca  

Sac and Fox 

Shawnee 

Tonkawa 

Cherokee  

Chickasaw  

Choctaw 

Delaware of Eastern Oklahoma  

Miami 

Muskogee 

Creek 

Modoc  

Ottawa 

Peoria 

Quapaw  

Seminole  

Seneca-CayugaWyandotte

With respect...Thank you for receiving my poetry.