Gerard Vizenor is on the move again! Next week Vizenor will be at Harvard University for a reading and discussion on his recent book, Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku. The reading and moderated discussion will be a part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program.

Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems written over the past forty years. Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry and in the introductory essay he compares the imagistic poise of haiku with the early dream songs of Anishinaabe, or Chippewa. Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions, and by intuition he creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in concise poems—he creates a sense of presence and at the same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence.

“Through the vehicle of these wondrous and succinct poems, Vizenor reinforces the reality of our human dependency upon the natural world as the source that sustains us within the circle of life. He reminds us that we are born to perceive the beauty of our surroundings and, by doing so, celebrate life in all its majesty.”- Sonja James, The Journal

The reading place will take place at the Radcliffe, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. For more information please visit the event online. Vizenor will sign copies of his book at The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, in Cambridge.

The reading is free and open to public.