2025 Summer Workshop Program

Santee Frazier The Poetics of Indigenous Epistemologies July 13 to July 18, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Poetry Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

This workshop is built on an Indigenous Pedagogical framework where we build rigor through consensus and consider poetry writing as a holistic art and practice. We will focus on the visual and sonic elements of poetry writing to reimagine the poem as an act of restorative justice. As a collective, we will reconsider the white space of the page and, by extension, deepen our approaches to form/format and the poetic line. We will also consider typographic design, analog/digital mediums, and assemblage, with each poet creating a portfolio of small poems by the end of the workshop. The workshop will require participants to engage with a small selection of readings, workshop new poems, and collaborate with others in the collective.

Biography

Santee Frazier, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His most recent collection of poetry, Aurum, was published in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press. Frazier has received numerous honors, including the Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency Fellowship. He currently serves as the Viebranz Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University.