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Audio Recording Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman on July 12, 2020. Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman

Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman
Audio recording of poet reading and discussing poem.

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Title

  • Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman on July 12, 2020.

Other Title

  • Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman

Summary

  • Heather Cahoon reads and discusses her poem "Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman" on July 12, 2020, from her home in Missoula, Montana. Cahoon, PhD, is an award-winning poet, artist, and policy scholar from the Flathead Reservation where she is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Her chapbook Elk Thirst won the Merriam-Frontier Prize and her first full-length collection of poems, Horsefly Dress, was published by the University of Arizona Press in September 2020.

Names

  • Cahoon, Heather (Heather M.), author, speaker.
  • Library of Congress. Poetry and Literature Center, sponsor.

Created / Published

  • 2020.

Headings

  • -  American poetry--Indian authors
  • -  American poetry--21st century
  • -  Indians of North America--Poetry

Genre

  • Poetry
  • Poetry readings (Sound recordings)
  • Sound recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry (AFC 2020/004: 16) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  In English; with some Salish.

Medium

  • 1 audio file (0:04:13) : digital, wav
  • 1 photograph : digital, jpg, color
  • 2 manuscripts (3 pages) : digital, pdf

Source Collection

  • Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry AFC 2020/004

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020785216

Rights Advisory

  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
  • Heather Cahoon, "Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman" from Horsefly Dress by Heather Cahoon. Copyright © 2020 Heather Cahoon. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. Photo courtesy of the author.

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  • pdf

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Credit line: Living Nations, Living Words (AFC 2020/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Cahoon, Heather , Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman on. 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785216/.

APA citation style:

Cahoon, H. & Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center, S. (2020) Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman on. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785216/.

MLA citation style:

Cahoon, Heather , Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Heather Cahoon reads and discusses Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman on. 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020785216/>.