Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-4-2021
Location
University Theatre; Virtual
Author/Artist Bio
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley was born to two True Temper wheel-barrow factory workers and belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the Affrilachian author of the collections Dēmos: An American Multitude (Milkweed, 2021), Colonize Me (Saturnalia, 2019), and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). He received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Tickner Center, and Kundiman, among others. His recent work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNEXT, Native Voices: Honoring Indigenous Poetry, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Poetry, and Tin House.
Description
The reading took place on Monday, October 4, at 4 p.m. in the University Theatre.
Sheri Reynolds also read at this event.
Recommended Citation
Kingsley, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe, "Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2021). 44th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 3-7, 2021. 13.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2021/13
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