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University of Montana: Simon Ortiz poetry reading Friday at 4 p.m.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Simon_Ortiz for blogI was picking my husband up at the airport Wednesday night. He sat in the car with me and said he had seen University of Montana literature professor Angelica Lawson inside the airport, assisting an older Indian man. I said, that Indian man is Simon Ortiz. I knew he would be arriving since he had two poetry readings scheduled on Thursday, one up on the Flathhead Reservation and another reading Friday at  4 p.m. at the University of Montana campus. See the flyer link below for more details. Anyway, no sooner had I told my husband who the Indian man was when Ortiz and Lawson stepped outside the baggage claim area. My husband was quick to introduce himself to Ortiz, an acclaimed poet and “a key figure in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.” Ms. Lawson sent me information earlier this week. I’d encourage anyone who is available to stop by and listen to Ortiz, who is from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico.

 Here is the Friday UM schedule — the Ortiz flyer — with more details.

See you there!

Jodi Rave

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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