[List] Lance Henson in Europe
Bartl, Renate
bartl at american-indian-workshop.org
Thu Nov 19 15:15:19 CET 2009
Cheyenne/Oglala Sioux poet Lance Henson is presently in Europe and can
be booked for lectures and readings.
Email Lance Hanson: lancehens at yahoo.com
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Biography:
Lance Henson, Cheyenne/Oglala Sioux poet
Lance David Henson, born in Washington, D. C. in 1944, is Cheyenne,
Oglala Sioux and French. He was raised on a farm near Calumet,
Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob Cook. His great
uncle was the groundskeeper for Chapter One of the Native American
Church of Oklahoma. Lance was the last of five boys raised by this
couple. He grew up living the Southern Cheyenne culture. He served in
the U. S. Marine Corps after high school, during the Vietnam War, and
is a graduate of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (now University of
Science and Arts of Oklahoma) in Chickasha. He holds a MFA in creative
writing from the University of Tulsa.
After ten years of conducting poetry workshops through the Artist in
Residence program of the State Arts Council of Oklahoma, Lance began
to travel, working both in the U.S. and in Europe.
Lance is a member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Society, the Native
American Church and the American Indian Movement (AIM). He has
participated in Cheyenne Sun Dance on several occasions as both dancer
and painter.
Lance has published 17 books of poetry, half in the U.S. and half
abroad. His poetry has been translated into 25 languages and he has
read and lectured in 9 countries. His readings include the One World
Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, the International Poetry Festival in
Tarascon, France, and the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival in New
Jersey . In March 2008 he was feature poet and the National Museum of
the American Indian in Washington D.C. as part of the Vine Deloria
memorial reading series. He has co-written two plays, one of which,
Winter Man, had a successful run at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre
Company. His play Coyote Road played to sell out audiences in
Versailles, France in December 2001. A new remix of a jazz and poetry
CD titled Another Train Ride (1999) has appeared in collaboration with
Brian Eno, titled The Wolf and the Moon, from Materiali Sonori, Milan,
Italy (2001)
Lance represented the United States Information Service as a Featured
Lecturer in Singapore, Thailand, New Guinea and New Zealand in 1993.
He has also represented the Southern Cheyenne Nation at the European
Free Alliance in Leeuwarden, Netherlands and at the United Nations
Indigenous Peoples Conference in Geneva in 1988. He returned to speak
at another conference there in 1997.
In April 2006 Words From the Edge will sponsor a mini-tour in Italy of
Indigenous poets from endangered tribes, organized by Lance.
Awards
On Oct. 16, 2004, Lance was named to the Alumni Hall of Fame at the
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha.
In the summer of 1995, Lance had a residency at the Millay Colony for
the Arts.
In the spring of 1993, he was poet-in-residence at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Lance had two books, Cheyenne Sketchbook and Another Distance, among
the five poetry finalists in the 1992 Oklahoma Book Awards sponsored
by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
During the summer of 1992, Lance was in residence at the Mad River
Theater in West Liberty, Ohio, where the play Coyote Road, co-authored
with Jeff Hooper, was performed.
A Ford Foundation Fellowship supported Lance's attendance at the
University of Tulsa.
Online Biography:
http://www.usao.edu/alumni/HallofFame/bios/Lance%20David%20Henson.html
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