Simon Ortiz: The Power of Words and Sacred Spaces

Simon Ortiz: The Power of Words and Sacred Spaces

Today -- Simon Ortiz at Tucson Festival of Books

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 9. 2024

TUCSON, Arizona -- Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, is among the great poets and storytellers at this year's Tucson Festival of Books. The icons of Southwest poetry and literature join poets and authors from across the nation, today and Sunday.

Through the years here in Tucson, Simon's voice has sounded out the beauty and the struggles, and memories of the sacred spaces. At the Tucson Poetry Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, the theme was home and Simon gave voice to the power of home.