Campus Humanities Calendar

Poetry reading by Jenny L. Davis, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and 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. Dr. Davis will read selected poems from her new book, Extant.  All are welcome! 

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. For more details, visit https://msupress.org/9781611865738/extant/.