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The recording of our virtual event, Reawakening the Tongva Language through Poetry: A Poetry Reading and Presentation by Megan Dorame

Learn about Megan's efforts to revitalize the Tongva language using poetry. She'll share a selection of her poems as well as offer ideas for writing poetry in our Indigenous languages.

Megan Dorame is a Tongva poet who lives and writes in Santa Ana, California. She holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and works to reclaim and revitalize the Tongva language. Megan is a 2020 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and her work has appeared in The Ear, Dryland, and The Offing, among others. Megan is working on a collection of poems inspired by the complicated history of her people.