By Hannah Lennon
2018 National Book Award Finalist Layli Long Soldier comes to campus over Zoom to read and discuss her work in this year’s Chet Raymo Literary Series.
The Literary Series has been an event on campus since 2001, and October 29 will be the first time it is held online.
The annual event brings significant writers of poetry, fiction or non-fiction to Stonehill to share their work and to speak about the art of writing, according to the Stonehill website.
This year the Stonehill community has the honor of welcoming poet Layli Long Soldier.
Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, feminist, artist, and activist currently working as an adjunct English professor at Diné College. She lives and works in the four corners region of the Southwest, where she continuously advocates against systematic oppression of Indigenous peoples.
Her first book, Whereas, studies cultural erasure of native tribes in the U.S.
Long Soldier is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Whiting Awards, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Award for Poetry.
The Raymo Lecture Series is named in honor of one of Stonehill’s celebrated faculty members, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy Chet Raymo.
Raymo has written 18 books on nature and science, including Frankie Starlight, which was made into a major film.
The event will take place at 6 p.m. on October 29 over Zoom. To register, visit https://www.stonehill.edu/events/chet-raymo-literary-series-virtual/2020-10-29/
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