Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation as we celebrate the publication of Extant: Poems by Jenny L. Davis. The event will feature a poetry reading followed by a book signing. 

The second poetry collection by award-winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. Drawing on online question forums, scientific studies, kitschy decor, and the day-to-day musings of an Indigiqueer Native woman, Extant stages encounters of Native survival within a world full of stars, cicadas, earthworms, and moss.

Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an associate professor of anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program.