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Re-sensing Home with Jake Skeets

Facilitated by the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation

Join us for an incredible workshop opportunity!

Re-Sensing Home: We often enter memory through the things we can taste, smell, touch, hear, and see. There are memories that are particularly important to us. For example, bread and breadmaking remain important parts of our personhood. I call these kinds of memories "grounding memories" and we can use them to re-sense our way through important parts of our past to discover hidden details that help build not just a world we can experience but a world we can feel, a felt world. 

Jake Skeets is the author of two books of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award, and the highly anticipated second collection, Horses. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

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