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Laura Da'
In this episode, we speak with Laura Da’ about time, place, pedagogy, illness, and poetry. She reads us some of her work, and we discuss the ways in which language shapes us and our craft. Listen to this exchange in our second installment.
Recorded June 18, 2022, at Kubota Garden
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Laura Da'
Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, Tributaries, was published by the University of Arizona Press and won a 2016 American Book Award. Da’ has held residencies at the Richard Hugo House, Tin House, and Jack Straw. Her newest book, Instruments of the True Measure, is the winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son.
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Kubota Garden
So this is a poetic landscape for refuge and meditation, a work of art we could walk within that awakened in us a feeling of serenity, humility, and gratitude. A place that beckoned us to forget all our quotidian cares as city dwellers, to slow down the hectic pace of modern life and listen quietly and viscerally with our spirit and flesh… Words are merely “a finger pointing at the moon,” and cannot be a substitute for experiencing firsthand all that the Garden offers.
Go there. - Charles Johnson, National Book Award winner
Foreword to Spirited Stone, Lessons from Kubota's Garden
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