⭐️ Hosted by the Native American Academic Student Success Center (NAASSC)/Native Nest

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Cj Jackson, a CAMPSSAH scholar with the Office of Academic Diversity, will give a presentation on Indigenous Poetry Theory at the Native Nest (located at the University House & Annex). 

This talk is primarily about poetry and what it means for Native and Indigenous poetry theory to be a condition in which a theory of poetics and a poetic theory emerges simultaneously for Indigenous refusal. What would it mean for poetry to be the main, and maybe even only way, we come to know Native relationality, history, and feelings? How do those conditions emerge outward from the poems themselves? How does how we interpret poetry make our readings legitimate? Jackson will discuss how Native and Indigenous poetry does not merely represent indigeneity but is a site for producing knowledges about ways of relating and being.

Cj Jackson is a Diné poet, poetry theorist, and an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Their work centers around Native and Indigenous literatures and poetic forms of cultural dispossession.