Lecture and Reading by Daniel David Moses
Buffalo State College is pleased to welcome award-winning poet, author, and playwright Daniel David Moses to campus for two appearances—a lecture and reading, “Breath Is the One Body: Making Literature Haunted by the Ghosts of Namerindian Oratures,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Bulger Communication Center West 2, and a reading at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 17, in the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Born in 1952, Moses is a Delaware Indian who grew up on the Six Nations lands on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He is an accomplished poet, playwright, editor, and author whose work has appeared in numerous collections and literary journals, including Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology (Broadview Press, 2001), Native Writers and Canadian Writing (University of British Columbia Press, 1991), The Last Blewointment Anthology: 1963–1983, Vol. 2 (Nightwood Editions, 1985), First People, First Voices (University of Toronto Press, 1983), Arc Poetry Magazine, Atlanta Review, Event, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, the Fiddlehead, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Fire, and Prism International. His work has been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, and Spanish.
He has published three collections of poetry: Delicate Bodies, The White Line, and Sixteen Jesuses. His plays include Coyote City (a nominee for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama), The Dreaming Beauty (winner of the 1990 Theatre Canada National Playwrighting Competition), Songs of Love and Medicine, and his best-known work, Almighty Voice and His Wife. His play The Moon and Dead Indians won Vancouver’s New Play Centre’s Du Maurier Playwrighting Competition and with its sequel, Angel of the Medicine Show (produced and published as The Indian Medicine Shows), received the 1996 James Buller Memorial Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Theatre.
Moses has received many other literary awards and prizes, including the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Harbourfront International Authors Festival Prize, and the Harold Award. He was twice nominated for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.
He has served as writer in residence at the Lannan Foundation; the Institute of American Indian Arts; Concordia University; McMaster University; the University of Western Ontario; and the University of Windsor. He has served as poet in residence for the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project 4 of the University of Toronto Scarborough, the Debajehmujig Theatre Group, and the Studio Ypsilon; and the Academy of Alternative Theatre in Prague. He was playwright in residence for the National Arts Centre’s English Theatre, and artist in residence for the Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal.
He is currently an assistant professor and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He holds an honors B.A. from York University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.
Born in 1952, Moses is a Delaware Indian who grew up on the Six Nations lands on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He is an accomplished poet, playwright, editor, and author whose work has appeared in numerous collections and literary journals, including Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology (Broadview Press, 2001), Native Writers and Canadian Writing (University of British Columbia Press, 1991), The Last Blewointment Anthology: 1963–1983, Vol. 2 (Nightwood Editions, 1985), First People, First Voices (University of Toronto Press, 1983), Arc Poetry Magazine, Atlanta Review, Event, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, the Fiddlehead, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Fire, and Prism International. His work has been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, and Spanish.
He has published three collections of poetry: Delicate Bodies, The White Line, and Sixteen Jesuses. His plays include Coyote City (a nominee for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama), The Dreaming Beauty (winner of the 1990 Theatre Canada National Playwrighting Competition), Songs of Love and Medicine, and his best-known work, Almighty Voice and His Wife. His play The Moon and Dead Indians won Vancouver’s New Play Centre’s Du Maurier Playwrighting Competition and with its sequel, Angel of the Medicine Show (produced and published as The Indian Medicine Shows), received the 1996 James Buller Memorial Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Theatre.
Moses has received many other literary awards and prizes, including the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Harbourfront International Authors Festival Prize, and the Harold Award. He was twice nominated for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.
He has served as writer in residence at the Lannan Foundation; the Institute of American Indian Arts; Concordia University; McMaster University; the University of Western Ontario; and the University of Windsor. He has served as poet in residence for the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project 4 of the University of Toronto Scarborough, the Debajehmujig Theatre Group, and the Studio Ypsilon; and the Academy of Alternative Theatre in Prague. He was playwright in residence for the National Arts Centre’s English Theatre, and artist in residence for the Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal.
He is currently an assistant professor and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He holds an honors B.A. from York University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.
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