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Allison Hedge Coke

Allison Hedge Coke, poet, writer, literary performer, activist, educator, is a passionately unique and compelling writer and live presenter whose literary and artistic works revealing musicality, imagery, and profound truths of: culture, class, labor, landscape, housing dilemma, homelessness, human rights, Indigenous rights, environmental topics, eco-ethos persuasion, oppression, abuse, violence, the fragility of human condition, the affect of parental insanity on youth and adolescents; alternative truthful history, healing, sacredness of motion, transformative language, possibility and peace have garnished invitations from International events including:

Festival Internacional de Poesia de Rosario (Argentina, 2007); Festival Mundial de la Poesia Venezuela (Caracas, Maturin, Tucupita, 2006); Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin (Colombia, 2005, 2007), and the Middle East.... Her hundreds of North American keynote presentations and performances include: the United Nations, the Sequoyah Institute; Associated Writing Programs (several cities in the US and in Canada); Poets & Writers (California); Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and Creative Imagination, Iowa State University; Laborfest, Detroit; WBAI, Free Poetry Hour; Poets Against the War; Writers Voice (several chapters); City Lights Bookstore; Writers Garret (Dallas); the Mayborn Institute (Dallas); Goddard Transformative Language Conference; Writers Week UCR; Naropa University MFA Program; Woodland Pattern; Bookwoman; Carlow University MFA Program; University of West Virginia; Washington & Lee University; Marquette University; University of Wisconsin; Katchemac Bay Writing Conference; Whidbey Writers Conference; Santa Fe Writers Conference; National Poetry Archive, San Francisco State University; St. Mark's Poetry Project; the Bowery Poetry Project; Kenyon College; Ohio State University; Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Eastern Carolina University; Appalachian State University; University of Minnesota Morris; University of South Dakota; Black Hills State University; South Dakota State University; Northern State University; University of Montana; Montana State University; Center for Western Studies; Western Heritage Museum; Holter Museum; Rochester Technical Institute; California State University Long Beach; California Poets in the Schools Conferences; Santa Barbara Poetry Festival; South Dakota Festival, Center for the Book; Oregon State University; Washington Pavilion; Dahl Fine Arts Center; UC Palm Desert; Rushkin Reading Series, LA; Nebraska Book Festival; Omaha Healing Arts Center ...

Broadcasts include:

XVII Prometeo International Poetry Festival of Medellin; Australian Broadcast Corporation; Arts on Air, De Paul University; NPR’s Prosody, WYEP; 3rd World Poetry Festival of Venezuela. Multiple recordings in Caracas, Maturin, and Tucupita, Venezuela; United Nations Radio; SDPR Arts Alive, Houseblend, Food for Thought, Dakota Visions; XV Prometeo International Poetry Festival of Medellin; Red Tales Radio; Labor Radio KFAI; New Medicines Festival; AIROS; Native America Calling; Western Heritage Museum; NPR/Yellowstone Public Radio National Public Radio Affiliate; Holter Museum; Writer’s Voice Reading Series YMCA. PBS, Public Libraries, and Public Schools; WBAI, Free Poetry Hour, Peter Lamborn Wilson directed; Naropa Institute and University Performance and Presentation Archives ....

Hedge Coke is The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English and Associate Professor of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. There she directs the Reynolds Series bringing quality literary events and opportunities to UNK, Kearney and Central Nebraska. Former posts include: the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Hartwick College; MFA Program and English Department Core Faculty at Northern Michigan University; Faculty in Residence, SUNY Oneonta; Kilian College; SD Arts Alliance Board Member; Sioux Falls Housing Corporation Board Community Advocate Member; Director, Ventura Repertory Theater; Revitalization Task Force Member, Whittier Neighborhood; ICWA advocate; CASA advocate; Director, Writers Voice; CPITS Area Coordinator; and alternative community writer in residence positions in eight states. She works with incarcerated youth in LAMIYSD and Arts Corr and regularly serves as a writer in residence in schools, state hospitals, and libraries for the South Dakota Arts Council.