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About Denise Low
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The State Library of Kansas designated her book Words of a Prairie Alchemist a 2007 Notable Book (Ice Cube Press). A poetry collection,
Thailand Journal, was named a notable book of 2003 by the Kansas City Star, and her book New & Selected Poem:, 1980-1999 was published by Penthe Press. She also edited Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image for the Lawrence Arts Center’s
Imagination & Place Committee (2005). She and her husband Thomas Weso have co-written a biographical work on the poet Langston Hughes. Low was guest co-editor of Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, a special issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal, UCLA, 28.1 (2004). Her articles, essays, and reviews of American Indian literature appear in Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas City Star, and others.
More on the Poet Laureate
Her father was the Democratic Party Lyon County chairman from the 1960s to the 1980s. As a child she remembers his lively discussions with William L. and Kathryn White of the Emporia Gazette and other Republican advocates.
Low began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Gazette, like her brother David and sister Jane Ciabattari. Her sister Jane is a well-known journalist and fiction writer in New York City.
Dr. Low holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Kansas and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wichita State University. She has published ten books of poetry and essays and received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lannan Foundation, Kansas Arts Commission, Poetry Society of America and others. She also publishes reviews and articles about poetry and American Indian Literature.
Dr. Low’s future plans are to follow the lead of the first Poet Laureate of Kansas, Jonathan Holden. Dr. Holden initiated a dialogue with communities and schools across the state through televised poetry programs and other appearances. She will continue adding to the Kansas poets web site (www.kansaspoets.com), created by Greg German & Dr. Holden to engage writers and readers of Kansas poetry. In addition, she will write a weekly column featuring a Kansas poet for the web site, free to Kansas schools, libraries and arts organizations.
Dr. Low resides in Lawrence and is married to Thomas Weso. Her children are David Low of Healdsburg, CA; Daniel Low of Washington D.C.; and stepdaughter Pemecewan Fleuker of Lawrence.
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