VOICES Reading: Kaia Sand, Dec. 11

Thursday, December 11: Journalist, Poet, and Fabric Artist Kaia Sand (7:30 p.m., Daugherty Palmer Commons)

In Collaboration with the Environmental Studies Department

A poet, journalist, artist, community organizer and teacher based in Portland, Oregon, Kaia Sand is the author of three books of poetry — A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff, Remember to Wave (both Tinfish Press), and interval (Edge Books). She co-authored a book on poetry in public space with Jules Boykoff, Landscapes of Dissent; and her poetry composes two books in Jim Dine’s Hot Dream series (Steidl Editions). As artist-in-residence at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, she made art responding to police surveillance of activists; and as a Despina resident artist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she embroidered poetry in public spaces. Executive director of Portland street newspaper, Street Roots from 2017-2024, Sand wrote more than 300 weekly newspaper columns on homelessness. She is writing a book on alternatives to police burgeoning in more than 100 cities nationwide, and writes columns at unwantedpersons.substack.com