Ethnicity in Poetry

Ethnicity in Poetry, a forum on the legacy of culture and the creative process, was held at the Spokane Center of the urban campus of Eastern Washington University on May 6, 1987 with Distinguished Visiting Writer Ray Young Bear, the Mesquakie poet from Tama, Iowa, as special guest. Other writers who were invited to participate were James Mitsui, Japanese-American poet from Seattle, WA, James McAuley, Irish-American poet from Dublin and Spokane, WA, a former director of Creative Writing at EWU and Professor of English, Alex Kuo, Chinese-American poet who is now the director of the Comparative Cultures Department at WSU, Pullman, WA, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a Sioux poet and writer who teaches at EWU and edits The Wicazo Sa Revieut Phyllis Silver of KPBS, Spokane, WA, moderated

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