Tacey Atsitty in-conversation with Barbara Hamby with (At) Wrist

Join Midtown Reader for Tacey Atsitty and Barbara Hamby as they discuss Tacey’s new release (At) Wrist.

About the Book:

Tacey M. Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Diné and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully reveal a love that can last for eternity. Celebrating and examining the depth and range of her relationships with men, Atsitty tenderly shares experiences of being taught to fish by her father, and, in other poems, reveals intimate moments of burgeoning romantic love with vulnerability and honesty. Grounded in a world both old and constantly remade, she reminds us that it is only by risking everything that we can receive more than we ever imagined.

About Tacey Atsitty:

Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). The recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, Atsitty is an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets fellow and holds degrees from Brigham Young University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Cornell University. The author of Rain Scald, she is the director of the Navajo Film Festival, a member of the Advisory Board for BYU’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and a board member for Lightscatter Press.

About Barbara Hamby:

Barbara Hamby, Distinguished University Scholar, MA, Florida State University (1981), specializes in poetry and fiction. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (2014) and Bird Odyssey (2018). Her book of linked stories, Lester Higata’s 20th Century, won the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award/John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She also co-edited an anthology of poetry, Seriously Funny, with her husband David Kirby. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow in poetry. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and many other magazines. As well as Best American Poetry 2000, 2009 and 2010.