Name: Esther Belin Poetry Reading
Start: 2025-10-08T19:00:00-04:00
Location: RCAH Theater, Snyder-Phillips Hall, 361 Physics Rd. East Lansing

Please join us as we welcome Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies at MSU Esther Belin for a poetry reading.
A reception and book signing will follow in the LookOut Gallery, with books available for purchase from Everybody Reads Books.
Esther Belin, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is the inaugural poet laureate of Durango, Colorado (2024–2026) as well as a 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She calls the region just east of Dibé Ntsaa, the northern boundary mountain of Dinétah, her home. She has two collections of poetry: From the Belly of My Beauty and Of Cartography, and is a co-editor of The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, which received the American Book Award. She is the Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies at Michigan State University.