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New OU exhibition to explore Oklahoma history through poetry

Red Dust Oklahoma

“Red Dust Oklahoma: A Poetic History” will open Oct. 9 and remain on display in the Western History Collections until June 30, 2019.  The exhibition will look at Oklahoma's past through poetry pre-statehood to 1941.

 via OU University Libraries

An upcoming university exhibition, “Red Dust Oklahoma: A Poetic History,” seeks to explore the state’s vibrant past through the power of historic Oklahoman poetry dating from pre-statehood to 1941.

The exhibition was created as a way to celebrate Oklahoma’s poetic history. Crag Hill, English education coordinator and one of the exhibit curators, said the poetry found for this unique exhibition surpassed his expectations of how enticing and captivating historical poetry can be, according to a press release.

“What we found were poets who had incredibly interesting lives in the ’20s and ’30s in Oklahoma and beyond. Even more so, we found that OU was the center of a literary renascence that gave it national attention. There was genius here in the ’20s and ’30s,” Hill said in the press release.

Red Dust Oklahoma is centered around six themes: how OU students and professors have helped shape the literary landscape in Oklahoma; how the state’s burgeoning oil industry affected Oklahoma’s geological past; Native American responses, feelings and activism surrounding the state’s convoluted past; how Oklahoma transformed from a territory into a state; historical military service; and expressions of love and nature.

Chelsea Julian, University Libraries communication coordinator, said the most interesting thing about the exhibit is how “it shows a side of Oklahoma history that is kind of surprising and engaging in a way that you don’t typically get to see. It shows Oklahoma history through the lens of the poetry from that time period.”

The exhibit will kick off with an opening reception Oct. 9 in the Western History Collections Reading Room followed by a poetry reading of 19 of the poems that will be on display.

“Red Dust Oklahoma: A Poetic History” will open Oct. 9 and remain on display in the Western History Collections until June 30, 2019. The opening exhibition will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Western History Collections Reading Room on the third floor of Monnet Hall, 630 Parrington Oval.

“If for some reason you can’t attend the opening event or the reading, there’s opportunities coming up every month through the duration of the exhibition for students to engage with the event,” Julian said.

More information can be found on the OU university library website.