Acclaimed poet Allison Hedge Coke, with support from the UM's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, will read from her new book Streaming, in conversation with her Coffee House Poetry Editor Erika Stevens. According to poet Adrian Matejka, as he writes of Streaming, "it is clear that in these urgent poems, and in this necessary book, we’ve found both the magnificent and the unforgettable.”
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's books include authored (poetry)
Dog Road Woman,
Off-Season City Pipe,
Blood Run,
Streaming, and
Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir) and edited anthologies
Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas,
Effigies and
Effigies II. Her latest published fiction is "Way the Crow Flies," in the Summer 2015 edition of This Land Press. She currently teaches for Vermont College, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Arkansas at Monticello and for the Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program of Naropa University (founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman) and recently served as a Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. Hedge Coke directs the Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat, performs with the band Rd Klā, and is currently at work on an environmental documentary film,
Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters, and serves as an alternative field mentor. Awards for her work include an Independent Publishers Award (IPPY), American Book Award, a Paterson Prize, a Sioux Falls Mayor’s Award, and fellowships or residencies with MacDowell, Black Earth Institute, Hawthornden Castle, Weymouth Center, Center for the Great Plains, Lannan at Marfa, and she was a fellow of Allen Ginsberg's and other Beats faculty at Naropa Institute through a Red Elk Scholarship and IAIA Award in 1992 and 1993.
